“Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.” WellsDoeFacesIndividualLevelsSurvivalNegativeAdversityResilienceWell BeingPersistMaintenanceResilientHigh LevelFacing Adversity Author:Richard Davidson
“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?” WellsDoeCharacterAmericaIndividualBlackTermCommunityResultsExistenceClassEconomicMiddleEffectsCenturyAbsolutesAdversitySlaveDiscriminationMiddle ClassProsperousLingeringRacial Discrimination Author:David Horowitz
“Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.” IfsHumansFormIndividualUnitedRaceSacrificeAdversityConstantCharityAffectionProsperityRationalHuman Race Author:Confucius