![Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca](/assets/img/quote-photos/far-from-being-the-father-of-jihad-prophet-mohammad-was-a-peacemaker-who-risk.jpg)
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father kids parent
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father artist conversation
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. Ray Conniff
father interesting trying
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father taken land
In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. Thomas Jefferson
father civilization ideas
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?
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father love-you giving
Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.