Bill Ferguson quotes

“Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.”
-- Bill Ferguson

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“If you want to have love, you have to open your heart and give love.”
-- Bill Ferguson

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“I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.”
-- Bill Ferguson

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“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

“Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (2009). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, p.12, Laurel Leaf

“There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.”

“Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.”

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

Source : Alain Badiou (2005). “Metapolitics”, p.7, Verso

“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.”

Source : "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.

“Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

“One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

“Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.”

“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”