"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." ― Alice Walker Topic(s): Friendship More From Alice Walker "For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged." "War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet." "The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior." More In Friendship "True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."― St. Jerome "Here’s a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That’s not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm’s way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship – and it goes so much deeper than friendship."― Eric Massa "Self-preservation is the first law of nature."― Samuel Butler