“The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they made to her Jesus... How happy is the loving soul when it has found Jesus with Mary, His Mother! They who know the Tabernacle where He dwells, they who receive Him into their souls, know that His conversation is full of divine sweetness, His consolation ravishing, His peace superabundant, and the familiarity of His love and His Heart ineffable” KnowsHeartMadeSoulMotherFoundJesusSimpleSeeingDivineWillingConversationSaviorOfferingMarySacramentsAdoreSweetnessConsolationHis LoveInfantFamiliarityShepherdsHomageIneffable Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.” WholeMotherCollegeWillingSonMonthsUniversityWhole LifeObligationAcknowledgeIdleFourteenRenounceOxford Author:Edward Gibbon
“My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.” PeopleGivingYearsCountryHomeMotherFatherBlackCommunityWhitePayHavensWillingMetsGiving UpRacismResourcesDefinitionsBlack PeopleOur CommunityMother And FatherReparationsWhite RacismYears Of Service Author:Sister Souljah
“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.” MenHumansChildrenWarGovernmentWantedMotherHeavenLibertyHistoryWillingHolyShotsSlaveryUnionsDemocratSoldierEvery ManNakedBlockCivil WarLabourYellowFlagsSolitaryCorpsesAltarsFeverAmerican Civil WarLashesAuctionsYellow FeverBloodhounds Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.” LittlesStillsProblemSeemsRunningMotherFatherToo MuchWillingBlameForgivingTerrorShrinksMother Love Author:Frank Pittman
“What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.” KnowsWritingMotherPerfectRoomsMinutesTaughtWillingTen Author:Emma Donoghue