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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“To those whom much is given, much is expected.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
― Albert Einstein

“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
― Desmond Tutu

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
― Frantz Fanon

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
― John F. Kennedy

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

“I don't mean to be like some old guy from the olden days who says, "I walked thirty miles to school every morning, so you kids should too." That's a statement born of envy and resentment. What I'm saying is something quite different. What I'm saying is that by having very little, I had it good. Children need a sense of pulling their own weight, of contributing to the family in some way, and some sense of the family's interdependence. They take pride in knowing that they're contributing. They learn responsibility and discipline through meaningful work. The values developed within a family that operates on those principles then extend to the society at large. By not being quite so indulged and "protected" from reality by overflowing abundance, children see the bonds that connect them to others.”
― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.”
― Ghandi

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass