{"quotes":[{"text":"The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they are. It is a path of seeing the truth of who people are, acknowledging all their parts, their humanness as well as divinity. It is the path of looking at people and asking, 'is there anything I can do to heal, assist, or bring them in touch with their higher vision?' If there is not, then you are pulling down your own energy by spending time with them'.","author":"Sanaya Roman","tags":["compassion","energy","humanness","spirituality"],"id":48235,"author_id":"Sanaya+Roman"},{"text":"They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song...","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["acknowledge","all-lives-matter","black-lives-matter","bleed","bleeding","blood","conflict","erase","faith","harmony","hope","human","humanity","humanness","injustice","inspiration","invalidate","justice","peace","phrase","poem","pray-for-everyone","pray-for-the-world","quote","rain","raining","silence","silenced","stronger-together","today","together","togetherness","union","unity","voice","words","write"],"id":73171,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["alive","bless","blessed","duty","everybody","everyone","gift","gift-of-life","guide","harmony","help","human-race","humanity","humanness","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live","living","love","love-movement","love-revolution","one-another","one-love","one-nation","one-world","others","peace","responsibility","responsible","together","togetherness","union","unity","world-peace"],"id":117634,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your souls means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.","author":"Paul Harding","tags":["grief","humanity","humanness","pain"],"id":163228,"author_id":"Paul+Harding"},{"text":"O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don’t pluck another feather,this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly,we are no more than human.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","angels","awareness","believe","believer","bestow","christ","consciousness","cries","crisis","earthly","educate","enlightenment","eyes","faith","feather","forgive","forgiveness","give-up","god","good","goodness","guardian","harmony","heaven","hope","hopeful","hopefulness","human","humanity","humankind","humanness","ignorance","ignorant","jesus","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","learn","learned","light","love","mistake","misunderstanding","paradise","peace","poem","poetry","religion","religious","sky","spirit","state","surrender","sweet-poem","to-err-is-human","together","truth","understanding","unity","weary","weary-angel","weather","world","worldly"],"id":186790,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["all-in-this-together","consciousness","harmony","human","humanity","humanness","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","one-love","oneness","peace","quote","separate","together","truth","unity"],"id":248745,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["aid","always","assist","burden","compassion","compassionate","despair","disease","empathetic","empathy","encourage","famine","genocide","harmony","help","helping","human","human-rights","humanity","humankind","humanness","hunger","illness","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","kojouri","love","one-love","one-people","one-world","others","peace","poverty","quotes","rape","relief","rights","suffer","suffering","support","think","thinking","thought","together","togetherness","unity","uplift","violence","war"],"id":261126,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate 'the other'. They want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. They want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. They are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate and we will never be silent for life is ours!","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["activism","activist","advocacy","afraid","aggression","aim","animosity","annihilate","annihilation","antagonism","arms","barricade","battle","bleed","bomb","bombs","burn","bury","camaraderie","change","children","community","conflict","corrupt","corruption","cut","dark","darkness","defeat","disapprove","divide","division","donald-trump","door","execute","execution","extortion","famine","fear","fight","friends","futile","genocide","government","hate","hatred","hide","home","hope","hope-poems","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hostility","houses","human","humane","humanity","humanness","hunger","ignorance","ignorant","inhuman","inhumane","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kill","kind","kindness","kojouri","life","life-poems","light","love","love-revolution","love-trumps-war","love-wins","massacre","media","murder","no-wall","object","objection","obliterate","one-earth","one-love","one-nation","oneness","otherness","outcry","peace","politicians","politics","protest","rebel","rebellious","revolt","revolution","scar","scared","scary","separate","separation","silence","silent","solidarity","solidarity-poems","solidarity","soul","trump","understand","union","unity","unity-poems","unity","walls","war","war-poems","war","wholeness"],"id":296829,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["acknowledge","animals","art","artist","atrocity","avert","awaken","awakening","aware","awareness","comprehend","conscious","consciousness","corrupt","corruption","country","deforestation","disease","extinction","eyes","famine","feel","flood","gaze","genocide","global-warming","grasp","homelessness","human","humanity","humanness","hunger","important","kamand","kamand-kojouri","know","kojouri","look","look-away","media","nation","nature","news","notice","perceive","perception","perspective","politics","poverty","present","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","see","stare","starvation","transcend","transform","transformation","understand","violence","war"],"id":299492,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["humanness","lying","truth"],"id":326195,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}