“As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.” PastAsksConflictGoodnessMercyRevengeTragicRejectsPatrioticRejectedCasualtiesAmnesty Author:Gerald R. Ford
“A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.” IfsMadePastSufferingDiesChanceEffortRaceExistenceEconomicMercyAffairDependentSooner Or Later Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.” YearsLooksMayPastLeftDarkStepsClearDrawsMercyDistanceAnother Year Author:Mary Gardiner Brainard
“All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.” MenAgeEarthPastHeavenCrossesMercyCurrentsSavingGreat MenRighteousnessElectricTestamentThrillHarmoniousMagnetTelegraphElectric Current Book:Evidences of Revealed Religion Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion
“Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.” PastMercyAccomplishment Author:Aeschylus