I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
People never think about words, they only feel them. - Han Suyin
People never think about words, they only feel them.
- Han Suyin
There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness. - Han Suyin
There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.
You can only understand the present age when it is past. - Han Suyin
You can only understand the present age when it is past.
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. - Han Suyin
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move. - Han Suyin
Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness. - Han Suyin
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason. - Han Suyin
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history. - Han Suyin
We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powe… - Han Suyin
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powe…
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