Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

The things I believe in now are grace and the power of human connection to change hearts and minds and the importance of civil dialogue.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

If you can see these people... as human beings and capable of change, there is hope. We should be willing to reach out. Imagine what could happen if we kept reaching out to people like Westboro members?

It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Can we all get along?