Collective Hurt Quotes

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.

As long as the waving symbol of another American’s pride is the shameful symbol of another American’s pain, we have bridges to cross in this country and we better get across them.

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

There's a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There's a mass of people who are broken.