When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
Medgar EversRead
I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Interpretation
This quote expresses deep love and commitment to one's family and the willingness to make sacrifices for their well-being.
Medgar Evers articulates a profound sense of devotion to his family, specifically highlighting the unconditional love he holds for his wife and children. The willingness to sacrifice his own life for their betterment underscores the extreme lengths a parent or partner will go to ensure their loved ones have a fulfilled and secure life, illustrating the depths of parental love and responsibility.
In practice
During a family gathering to share stories about dedication and love for family.
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.
The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.
I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.
It takes a Motherβs Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
Once a month we have 'dessert for dinner' night. I'll make four separate desserts. They'll come home from school and eat as much cake and custard and ice cream as they can physically get in their guts. Because sometimes I think, let them just be children.
When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
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