{"quotes":[{"text":"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["at-risk-people","at-risk-youth","brokenness","compassion","counseling","empowerment-and-attitude","healing","healing-the-emotional-self","healing-the-past","helping-others","human-rights-day","humility","intervention","recovery","remembrances","suicidal","suicide","survival","survivor","survivors","survivors-of-war","survivorship","war-veterans","word-definitions"],"id":16733,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["acknowledgement","awareness-and-attitude","being-open-minded","change","changing-the-way-you-think","changing-your-life","changing-your-mindset","coexistence","communication","consciousness","consciousness-raising","coping-with-change","diversity","eiffel-tower-art","ending-terrorism","ending-war","faith","hope-for-new-year","human-rights-day","mindsets","multiculturalism","new-year","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","open-mind","paris-at-night","paris-attacks","peacism","philosophy-for-millennials","points-of-views","possibility","psychology","shifting-perspectives","spiritual-philosophy","teaching-diversity","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":44029,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["10th-anniversary-of-9-11","9-11","beauty","faith","famous","famous-from-classic-books","grief","haiku","healing","history","human-rights-day","learning-from-history","national-history-day","by-aberjhani","recovery","remembering-september-11","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":66736,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["9-11","angel-poems","angels","darren-hunt","death","endurance","eric-garner","faith","famous","famous-from-classic-books","grief","gun-control","gun-safety","haiku","human-rights-day","inspriration","kajieme-powell","killing-of-black-men-in-america","mass-murder","michael-brown","newtown","positive-motivation","recovery","resurrection","spirituality","syrian-civil-war","tamir-rice","terrorism","ukraine","war","war-in-afghanistan","war-in-iraq","wings"],"id":74695,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["anthologies","collected-works","education-and-reference","famous-","human-rights-day","inspirational","life-journeys","literary-inspiration","literature","literature-about-literature","literature","literature-writing","nanowrimo","national-poetry-month","new-releases","personal-growth","quotation-collections","collections","rainbow","rainbows","savannah--and-poets","transformations"],"id":85026,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","compassion-heals-lives","duty-to-care","faith","friendship","hope","human-rights-day","inspiration","inspirational","joy","joy-of-life","love","positive-motivation","sharing","spirituality","world-suicide-prevention-day","zped-music-player"],"id":110082,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["children","diversity","human-rights-day","multiculturalism","multiculturalismo","parenting","race-and-racism-in-america","race-relations"],"id":112009,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["darren-hunt","democracy","demographics-of-united-states","diversity","equality","eric-garner","freedom","george-zimmerman","happiness","human-rights-day","justice","kajieme-powell","killing-of-black-men-in-america","mass-incarceration","michael-brown","new-jim-crow","pursuit-of-happiness","race-and-racism-in-america","racial-demographics","racial-discrimination","racism","tamir-rice","trayvon-martin","troy-anthony-davis"],"id":117258,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["african-americans","agape-love","american-history","black-history-month","civil-rights-movement","compassion-heals-lives","conflict-resolution","courage","dreams","faith","famous-","famous-speeches","great-leaders","hope","human-rights-day","humanity","i-have-a-dream-speech","leadership","love","martin-luther-king-day","martin-luther-king-jr","mlk-day","mlkdream50","national-history-day","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","spiritual-visions","spirituality","strength","voting-rights-act-of-1965"],"id":127303,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["afghanistan","courage-to-love","human-rights-day","inspiration","iraq","peace","peacism","philosophy","police-reform","police-shootings","september-9-11","spirituality","stop-killing-each-other","syrian-war","teaching-diversity","terrorism","ukraine","waging-peace","war","war-in-iraq","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":160682,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}