“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.” ShouldLooksMayWarProblemSeemsTogetherFacesUsedEnergyViewsKnownPovertyHellBrotherConflictInvestingAidsTheologyUsed To BeAttributesDiverseCommunionBentBrothers And SistersDisagreementHivOrientationAccommodateTime And EnergyHiv AidsInclusiveness Author:Desmond Tutu
“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.” ThinkingMenDifferentStatesProblemSeemsAbleDifferencesMistakeCollegeHe ManBrotherMy BrotherSameness Author:Zadie Smith
“The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us. We will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.” PeopleShouldStillsProblemChristianSupportBloodLandBrotherAgreeInjusticeJewContactShedEntityStolenZionistWesternersShedding Blood Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi
“Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.” PeopleMenYearsI CanStoriesProblemFatherInterestingChangedSonBrotherMen And WomenBrothers And SistersTelling StoriesFather And SonSisters And Friends Author:Steve Buscemi
“We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we miss the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple? It wasn't because we had stopped collected metadata it was because, I think, as someone who comes from the technology world, we were using the wrong algorithms.” ThinkingWorldProblemLawTechnologyHappenedMissingBrotherCoupleArgumentSolveAlgorithmsMetadata Author:Carly Fiorina
“Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.” ThinkingWayWritingSelfProblemFoundProcessDifficultGriefHappenedBrotherMomHealthyProjectsDiedMy MomMemoirMy BrotherTeenageRapidsEraseLoathingSelf LoathingReckoningBrother DiedMy Brother Died Author:Jesmyn Ward
“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.” ImportantProblemFatherNationsCompassionWatchesMilitaryTelevisionBrotherVictoryBattleDiedBritishCelebrateReasonableGrandfatherOur FatherDilemmaFather DiedNormandyFathers And GrandfathersGrandfather Died Author:Manfred Rommel
“I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect for people. So when I became a professional and saw that there were a lot of differences in the sense of how people lived their lives, I became respectful of their territory, of their thoughts and their ideas, and it was never a problem for me to feel that this is my sister, this is my brother.” PeopleKnowsFeelsIdeasProblemDifferencesSawsBrotherGrewGrew UpGenderToleranceMy BrotherTerritoryMy SisterRespectfulGender Differences Author:David C. Driskell
“One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II, most of the European countries started to develop economically and socially, but whatever way the Catholic church they took a grip and they almost governed the country. I mean, we were almost like a dictatorship. There is good and bad, but we experienced an awful lot of bad, especially from the institutions that taught children the Christian brothers, etc.” WorldMeanChildrenWarCountryProblemChristianChurchEconomicBrotherCatholicWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IDictatorshipGood And Bad Author:Gavin Friday