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“If you’re not at the table you’re on the menu?”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground, even with your opponents, especially with your opponents...You don't have to agree on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“The arc of the moral universe does not bend toward justice. It has to be bent, and this requires sheer force of will. It demands our sharpest focus and most concentrated effort. History does not move in a straight line; it has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, all the way down the line.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man’s-land is yes-man’s-land.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“Someone has likened prayer to being on a rough sea in a small boat with no oars. All you have is a rope that, somewhere in the distance, is attached to the port. With that rope you can pull yourself closer to God. Songs are my prayers.”
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
― Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
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