To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.
Jagmeet SinghRead
It's hard to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that there is something wrong with you - when you are called dirty because of your skin color.
Interpretation
Self-love can be challenging when faced with constant negativity and discrimination.
This quote highlights the profound impact that societal and personal criticism can have on an individual's self-esteem and self-worth. When people are conditioned to believe that they are flawed or inferior due to factors such as skin color, cultivating self-love becomes particularly difficult. The emotional weight of such messages can lead to deep-seated insecurities and hinder one's ability to embrace their true self.
In practice
During a motivational speech aimed at youth empowerment.
To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.
If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the ocean—oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.
When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]
If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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