a) What’s that line from “To Kill A Mockingbird”: “Never judge someone until you put your feet in their moccasins”, wasn’t it?
b) Mother Teressa supposedly said on her first visit to USA: “Never has there been a nation so rich, so poor”… or words to that effect.
If you have the exact quotes, or a link to 'em, I’d greatly appreciate it! - Jinx
“Never judge someone until you walk a mile in their shoes.”
at least according to http://cfapps.insidedenver.com/opinion/comment.cfm?ID=490
can’t find the other
Thanks, jojothecannibal. I could swear the author used the analogy of moccasins, though…or did I read it elsewhere?
I’ll keep searching!
there was a book i read when i was younger called Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (amazon.com description )
in it, one of the messages the girl recieves is “Don’t judge a person until you’ve walked two moons in their moccasins.”
that might be the quote you mean, however i highly doubt you pulled it from that particular book =)
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“Before you critisize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. Then, when you critisize him, you’ll be a mile away, plus, he’ll have no shoes.”
Is this the quote from To Kill a Mockingbird?
Atticus: "You have to walk around in someone’s moccasins a mile or two before you can accurately discern the meaning of their behavior. "
I didn’t find it in the book but it was mentioned on a website that mentioned Atticus’s wisdom.
That is priceless! Mind if I steal it for a signature?
Are you sure it wasn’t Pope John Paul II?
Although, JPII has been known to quote Mother Teresa quite often, especially when he wants to chastise the consumerism and greed of the 1st world.
Never has a nation been so rich in channels, and so poor in having nothing decent on to watch.
Hey!, where do you think I got it from? 
The Mother Teresa quote is different from the Pope’s. She is intentionally pointing out a disgust for the great economic divide within such a great country as the US.
I guess I’m going to have to re-read “To Kill A Mockingbird” to see if the quote, as I recall it, appears within the text.
Thanks, everyone, for their input!
The saying “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes” is a pretty old one. Most of the sources I’ve checked claim that it’s an American Indian saying, but this could be someone making up a saying and attributing it to American Indians because they thought it was clever to have them say it. (Besides, what tribe? Who first recorded it?) The variation with " . . . then you’ll be a mile away and he’ll have no shoes . . ." is an old joke.
Huh. Yes, well, she should talk
You might want to join the forum at www.quoteland.com and ask the assembled gurus there.
No, actually she is referring to something completely different.
From http://www.assist-ministries.com/Stories/s02080079.htm :
From another site (I have lost the URL):
RR
The secular humanists are hardly an unbiased source of appraisal of Mother Teresa. The fact that they claim that there is a vast conspiracy that religious leaders in general aren’t criticized makes them a laughing stock when you consider the knocks that Catholic Bishops, the Pope, Billy Graham and his son, and scores of televangelists have taken in the media recently (mostly deserved knocks, at that). What a bunch of whiners.
And yes, I can critizice Mother Teresa (her care of those dying of AIDS in the West, while full of the most righteous intentions, fell short of modern standards of hospital care, e.g., IMO).
One hundred per cent of the media don’t share my ideology, therefore, there must be a conspiracy of my enemies who are controlling the media and keeping them from reporting the true truth!