"I was born to a woman I
never
knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my
background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But
when
I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they
could
be my people." - James Michener, Author
"The law must be consonant with life. It
cannot
and should not ignore broad historical currents of history.
Mankind
is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old
questions:
"Who am I ?", and "Why am I?" Even now the sands and ashes
of the continents are being sifted to find where we made our first
steps
as man. Religions of mankind often include ancestor worship
in one way or another. For many the future is blind without sight of
the
past. Those emotions and anxieties that generate our thirst
to know the past are not superficial and whimsical. They are real
and they are "good cause" under the law of man and
God."
- Hon. Wade Weatherford, S. Carolina Circuit Court Judge
"In all of us there is a
hunger,
narrow and deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we
have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a
hollow
yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is a
vacuum,
an emptiness and a most disquieting loneliness!" - Alex
Haley,
Author
"The horrors of war pale besides the loss of a mother." - Anna Freud
"The horrors of war pale
besides the loss of a child." - Joe Soll
"One of the saddest
things of all is that so many adoptees and moms are afraid to take the
risk of healing which is necessary to pursue one's dreams"
"The
prisoner
disintegrated because he could never find out what he was
guilty of" - The Trial by Kafka
"The
oppressed
should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise
disturbance
until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial
distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
"People
cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness" - John D. MacDonald
`Not to have knowledge of what
happened before you were born is to be condemned to live forever as a
child.' -
Cicero (c. 106-43 BC)
"There are ex-husbands and ex-wives but there are
no ex-moms,
ex-dads
or ex-children" - Anon
"The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother" - Anna Freud (and the loss of a child) - JS
"Adoption Loss is the only trauma in the world where the victims are expected by the whole of society to be grateful" - The Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE
"Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost." - M. Scott Peck
"All children behave as well as they are treated"
- Jan Hunt, author of -The
Natural Child: Parenting From the Heart
"Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person" - Cheryl Richardson
"The past isn't dead...........It isn't even past" - William Faulkner
“The only way around is through” - Robert Frost
"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly" - Louis Mann
"The bond between a mother and her child is
naturally sacred. It is
physical, psychological and spiritual. It is very resilient and very
flexible. It can stretch very far - naturally. Any artificial or
violent injury to this "stretch" constitutes a serious psychic
trauma
to both mother and child - for all eternity. This means that
children
need their mothers and mothers need their children - whether or not a
mother is married or unmarried." - Mothers On Trial, The
Battle For
Children and Custody, by Phyllis Chesler, copyright 1986, 1987
"Never doubt that a small group of thougthful,
committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has".-
Margaret Mead
"We shall not cease our explorations, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive back where we started and know the place for the first time" -- T.S. Eliot
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." -- Isaac Asimov
"It's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do" -- Unknown
"I never gave them hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." -- H. Truman
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for." -- Chief Justice Earl Warren
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