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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead


The flower that blooms in adversity is the most beautiful flower of all.
Mulan


In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer


Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli


The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh


The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
Oscar Wilde


Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things.
Frank Zappa


He who rescues a single life it as though he has rescued the entire world.
The Talmud, Sanhedrin


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein


On some positions, cowardice asks the question: ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question: ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question: ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question: ‘Is it right?’”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr


I want to love my homeland and to love justice alike. I wish no greatness for my homeland if that greatness is made of blood and lies. I want to instill life in justice and through it instill life in my homeland.
Albert Camus


It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism . . . critical thinking about ourselves as a people and the course we have charted or failed to chart during this period.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau


What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Henry David Thoreau


Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire


If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau


Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Howard Thurman


Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation.
Eugene V. Debs


Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow


Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
Margaret Lee Runbeck


[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Theodore Parker

Perhaps it is a world that never was and never will be. But, it is a world worth working towards.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Our deepest fear Is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Who are you not to be? You are a child of the universe. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Marianne Williamson