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Fiona MacLeod
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
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Franklin Thomas
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
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George Bernard Shaw
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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Helen Keller
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul?
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Juvenal
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
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Leo Rosten
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
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