Logo
Quote by Maya Angelou
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innoc

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. – Maya Angelou

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Education
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Travel
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Belief
category

Never believe anything that requires you to hate people who do not believe it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Belief

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670

Category:
Belief

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true. – Saint Bartholomew

Category:
Belief

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

Category:
Belief

Random Quotes

Patience cant be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. – Eknath Easwaran

Category:
Patience

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I dont believe it exists. Ive felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. – Thor Heyerdahl

Category:
alone

I mean, Im 48 years old and Ive been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams. – Annie Lennox

Category:
Death

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action. – John Olver

Category:
Knowledge