Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.
– James H. Cone
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- Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes. – Joel Goodman
- Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. – Malcolm X
- Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. – Francis Quarles
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. – Francis Bacon
- Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. – James Thurber
- I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the ‘gay marriage float’ in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. – James Dobson
- Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. – James Thurber
- A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger. – James Rarey
- Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. – James Thurber
- Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin