Paul Simon Quotes

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

I do not wish to sit at the same table with a bunch of torturers.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

I used to sleep on floors and face racial abuse.

I got beat up my whole life.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

One man’s exile is but a drop in the sea of human misery

To the uncircumcised, son of the uncircumcised, Desbordes, may Allah confound and bring ruin to your friends … No one is more of a malefactor, no one more of a traitor, no one more wicked than you. You say that you only wish to open up a road for trade. This is false and contrary to sense and reason. Your desire is to destroy the country, to close the trade routes and make war on believers….The day when we meet, the birds of the air will not need to look elsewhere for their food.

O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!