“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.” GivingFirstsDesireCommunityResponsibilityGenerationsCenturyLonelinessIdentityDutyMembersDespairEthicsLonelyWeakSickTwentiesNobleSolidarityOur GenerationPersecuted Author:Elie Wiesel
“So you can see that if you direct that force at several objectives, it becomes divided, and each objective receives a fairly weak stimulus, which results in a slow reaction, or no reaction at all. Do you have a great, ultimate goal to reach that requires attaining lesser objectives along the way? Well then, let the many lie inactive and direct your force at the nearest or first; once you accomplish that, take up the next and so on.” IfsWayFirstsWellsActionLyingNextForceGoalResultsDirectWeakUltimateAccomplishReactionsObjectivesDividedStimulusUltimate Goal Author:Roger McDonald
“Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.” PeopleMindFirstsMayMadeEnoughFatherPoorDealsRaceBreakSupportEconomyRichMetsDiseaseWeakPossessionSoilOur FatherTitheOverbearing Author:Sitting Bull
“You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak means that are more effective than strong ones, as Paul also said in his First Letter to the Corinthians. [...] The wisdom of discernment redeems the necessary ambiguity of life and helps us find the most appropriate means, which do not always coincide with what looks great and strong.” FirstsLooksMeanSaidHelpingUseStrongProjectsLettersWeakAppropriateSmallestDiscernmentAmbiguityCorinthians Author:Pope Francis
“With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.” IfsFirstsRealSongModernCatWeakSomewhere ElseGlitterWeak PointsRockabillyStray Cats Author:Brian Setzer