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“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“There is peace even in the storm”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”
― Jana Stanfield

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
― Zen Shin

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.

We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.

So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people.”
― John Green

“If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.”
― Thomas Jefferson