Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.
Albert SchweitzerHear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
Albert SchweitzerThe gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
Albert SchweitzerA man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer