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Poems on Tolerance

by Sri Chinmoy

Tolerance
Is a secret and sacred way
To enrich our human life.

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Strength and tolerance
Must be eternal partners
To be victorious in life.

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India is not Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist.
India is India.
Its tolerance is more than ready
To freely house all religions.

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Tolerance is not peace,
But from tolerance,
In the near or distant future,
Peace may blossom.

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If I cannot have compassion-power,
Let me have forgiveness-power.
If I cannot have forgiveness-power,
Let me have tolerance-power.
If I cannot have tolerance-power,
Let me at least delay
My judgement-power.

Writings on Tolerance

Qu. How can we be taught to become tolerant?

SRI CHINMOY: Let us try to know the spiritual significance of tolerance. Tolerance is not conscious submission to a superior power. Real tolerance is compassion in disguise. When we have real tolerance, the seeker in us sees the expansion of his loving heart, his illumining soul and his fulfilling goal.
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by Sri Chinmoy Tolerance Is a secret and sacred way To enrich our human life. ~ Strength and tolerance Must be eternal partners To be victorious in life. ~ India is not Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist. India is India. Its tolerance is more than ready To freely house all religions.

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Police Brutality During the Civil Rights Movement

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During her visit to Birmingham, she tried to talk to various contacts to learn about the incident with her father. Although she initially didn't have success, she did discover a multitude of major flaws in the police documentation system; where many less than obscure events had little to no documentation in immediate view. Preceding this however, she learned the nature of the charges brought up against her father, including drunkenness, robbery, and resisting arrest; a series of crimes that she would never have expected her father to commit. This stunned her as she tried to piece together and realize her actual past.

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"The Birmingham police shot a lot of people. The city was like a shooting gallery back then."

- Baggett (PG68)

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"if it made the papers it would have to be the black papers because the white newspapers would never ever print a story like this. They just didn't care."

- Baggett (PG68)

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"All the same, the incident must have battered his dignity, while setting an internal compass that allowed him to move forward and shut out anything that might refresh that painful memory. His leg may have been injured, but his pride was intact."

- Norris (PG62)

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"I have come to the conclusion that when people start off a sentence with "You know," they're trying to take the edge off of unsettling news. Think about it. All those times you've heard "You know, I hate to tell you this"... "You know" suggests a seed of doubt; maybe you don't really know after all."

- Norris (PG56)

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Throughout this chapter, Michele tries to cope and realize the profound implications of her father's shooting when he was younger. It's extremely surprising to her, and she decides to commit a lot of time into further investigation. After contacting various relatives to help her fill in the details and learn the truth, she decides to go to Birmingham to contact more knowledgable people.