What if we all stop doing what we're told, and started doing what's right?

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 16:49 (NIV)

Oprah: I've seen you put people out of your house for telling a racist joke! And you are not the least bit embarrassed about disrupting the whole room.

Maya: I believe that a negative statement is poison. The air between you and me is filled with sounds and images. If that were not so, how is it that I can turn on a television right now and see what's happening in New York? That means sounds and images are in the air, crowded, jammed up like bats. And Oprah, I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said—the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate—I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin. 

Oprah: The same is true with the positive spirit.

Maya: I believe so. 
-From Orpah's Super Soul Sunday Interview with Maya Angelou

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. -Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

 No one stands up to King Kong, either because they know it's
 futile or because they don't see the fuss over his "supposed
 inequity" in size compared with merely average-sized gorillas,
 arguing that just a few hundred King Kongs running rampant 
 throughout our nation is nothing to get worried over just
 because they haven't stomped on your personal
 home/vehicle/retirement...yet. -unknown

“I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we’d only find yours.”Rudy Francisco

"It has always seemed odd to me how people are convinced that knowing and experiencing God is grounded in correct theology. What did people do before there was a Bible from which theological propositions could be formulated? Somehow God and humans made due without a well-defined belief system in place. How did that work? For instance, in the book of Genesis, a man named Enoch, only a few generations removed from Adam and Eve, is described as a man who “walked with God.” Maybe a well-defined set of truth propositions about God isn’t necessary for knowing and experiencing God.”

- Jim Palmer, Wide Open Spaces: Beyond Paint-by-Number Christianity

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We 
are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with 
books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those 
books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which 
they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the 
arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to 
me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."--Einstein

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. - Pearl Buck