It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

- Lillian Hellman

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies.

- Voltaire

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

- Madame de Stael

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history. I am stronger because you are stronger. I am weaker if you are weak. So we are more alike than we are unlike. (source)

- Maya Angelou

It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man.

- Elbert Hubbard

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

- Alice Miller

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi