This choice – this very clear decision – lies with no one else but the perpetrators themselves. This choice is very, very simple: Are you going to...
”This made me laugh when I read it last night :) :D
“I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land - every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike - all snored in the same language.” - Malcolm X
We collect secrets over the years, hide behind them, depend on them like aces up our sleeve. We think we have to protect the people we love from the truth; but the truth isn’t the poison, it’s the cure.
Best thing you can do is teach your kids not to be afraid. We try to live a good life, a clean life, but the secrets get in the way. Sure we can play dirty, use people’s mistake against them. But put all those secrets behind us, and the honest man comes out on top
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