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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.” ~ Noah Webster
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
~ Jimmy Carter
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“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” ~ Bethany Hamilton
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail. ~ George Washington
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“A true leader knows how to lead his people, knows their needs, wants, the one who humbles himself and the one who doesn’t eat and sleep well. A fake leader is the one who wants to be famous, the one who wants to be praised by people.” ~ anonymous
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ~ Walter Cronkite
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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.”
~ Asa Don Brown
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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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“Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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“Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.” ~ Jane Wyman
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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” ~ Max DePree
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“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” ~ Jane Addams
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“All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.” ~ Aesop