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#1

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: poetry, truth

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#2

“Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”
― Madonna

tags: malawi, masdonna, mercy

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#3

“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
― RuPaul

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#4

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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#5

“While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: defeat, maya-angelou

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#6

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

tags: american-presidents, inaugural-address, us-presidents

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#7

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.”
― James Baldwin

tags: inspirational-life, philosophical

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#8

“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

tags: admirable, advice, children, extraordinary, life, lives, ordinary

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#9

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
― W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

tags: dreams

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#10

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: honesty, justice, secrecy, transparency, truth, truth-telling

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#11

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability

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#12

“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: clarity, clear, dark, disguise, glass, heart, hide, honest, honesty, kingdom, privacy, transparency, transparent

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#13

“May we not waver to say a blunt “No” when push comes to shove. Once we handle the truth, it must be without “ifs” and “buts.” The air ought to be clean and the water clear. Since haggling with transparency is not in the cards, let us step down from the traditional “It Is What It Is” and definitively go for resilience. ("Resilience")”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: blunt, haggle, handle-the-truth, it-is-what-it-is, no, resilience, transparency, waver

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#14

“No hemming or hawing, no hinting or manipulation, no sledgehammer–subtlety may hold us back from claiming a climate of transparency and capturing an untainted and luminescent skyline, when the boldness of the truth is coming defiantly to the fore. ("Did not expect it would ever happen there" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: boldness, hemming-and-hawing, luminiscent, manipulations, skyline, sledgehammer-subtlety, transparency, truth, untainted

84 likes

#15

“Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.”
― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

tags: courage, testimony, transparency

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#16

“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
― William O Douglas

tags: honesty, secrecy, sunlight, transparency, truth

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#17

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#18

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42187 likes

#19

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

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#20

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

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#21

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth

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#22

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service

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#23

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: activism, service

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#24

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, advocacy, protest

1637 likes

#25

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

tags: activism, commitment, politics

1054 likes

#26

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

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

853 likes

#27

“If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: acquiescence, activism, consent, dissent, duty, protest, remaining-silent

465 likes

#28

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: activism, agitation, dissent, liberties, power, radicalism, rights

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#29

“People would rather believe than know.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: activism, animals, environment, inspirational

359 likes

#30

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: activism, belief, integrity, social-justice

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