“It is never too late to give up your prejudices”
Henry David Thoreau
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations On Change
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“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
Barack Obama
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
Mother Teresa
“In this time of repeated gun horrors, in a time when most Americans want gun control, remember to make your voices heard, to pressure politicians, and to vote.”
Charles F. French
Quotations On The Environment
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“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.”
Bill Nye
Quotations on Tyrants
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“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
John F. Kennedy
Quotations on Diversity–Revisited
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“It is never too late to give up your prejudices”
Henry David Thoreau
“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
Quotations on Service to Others
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
Barack Obama
“Life is for service.”
Fred Rogers
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy
Quotations on Education
Standard“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite
Quotations on Honesty
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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
Albert Einstein
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
Mahatma Ghandi
“You should not honor men more than truth.”
Plato
Quotations on Standing Up to Evil
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Quotations on Empathy and Compassion
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin
“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
Theodore Roosevelt
