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So Ms. Dewey heard this, and she shook her head in despair while fellow teachers were sort of cheering each other on and nodding approvingly.
And not only did those suicide bombers take a hundred lives, but they did more, because they created more hatred, more rage, more fear and certainly despair.
They were feeling despair, they were feeling, "Well, it doesn't matter what we do; eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
And I have three little grandchildren, and when some of these students would say to me at high school or university, they'd say, "We're angry," or "We're filled with despair, because we feel you've compromised our future, and there's nothing we can do about it."
And back here in the United States, we saw economic despair, deprivation.
And back home, what do you see? Poverty, despair, struggle.
And we support all of that with an intensive psychotherapy program to address the despondency, despair and depression that always accompanies severe, chronic pain.
We came out of the end of the Cold War in despair.
We can't overestimate the amount of despair that we are generating with places like this.
So as a humanist, I believe we must not despair for humanity.
So why despair when the unexpected knocks on the horizon?
We have allowed despair and pessimism to drain us, drain our energies, limit our imaginations and dim our vision for a better and brighter future.
I have visited institutions where the stench of urine is so strong that before you open the door of your vehicle, you're kind of pushed back, and then gone into those institutions where people should be living in the community with appropriate supports and seen people almost naked, people who are chemically drugged and people who are living lives of despair.
AG: Every scientist will recognize that expression of despair.
Radical neighborliness is every house behind Paul's block burning down, and instead of letting it fill up with trash and despair, Paul and the surrounding community creating a giant circular garden ringed with dozens of fruit trees, beehives and garden plots for anyone that wants one, helping me see that our challenges can often be assets.
And now, as you may have heard, Detroit is having a renaissance and pulling itself up from the ashes of despair, and the children and grandchildren of those who fled are returning, which is true.
I actually don't say this in despair.
In poor communities, in communities of color there is this despair, there is this hopelessness, that is being shaped by these outcomes.
Older people can view injustice with compassion, but not despair.
By displaying despair, helplessness and hopelessness, the media is telling the truth about Africa, and nothing but the truth.
Because despair, civil war, hunger and famine, although they're part and parcel of our African reality, they are not the only reality.
Africa has immense opportunities that never navigate through the web of despair and helplessness that the Western media largely presents to its audience.
The wrong framing is a product of thinking that Africa is a place of despair.
We need to reframe the challenge that is facing Africa, from a challenge of despair, which is called poverty reduction, to a challenge of hope.
The entire continent has been turned into a place of despair, in need of charity.
You feel intense elation when things are going well; mood swings into horrible despair when things are going poorly.
I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.
They don't have to struggle for it like Jacob wrestling through the night with the angel, or like Jesus in his 40 days and nights in the wilderness, or like Muhammad, not only that night on the mountain, but throughout his years as a prophet, with the Koran constantly urging him not to despair, and condemning those who most loudly proclaim that they know everything there is to know and that they and they alone are right.
Because despair is self-fulfilling.
In fact, most of us do, whether we're atheist or theist or anywhere in between or beyond, for that matter, what drives us is that, despite our doubts and even because of our doubts, we reject the nihilism of despair.
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