A Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.
The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.
We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.
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