William Cuthbert Faulkner
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.”
Audre Lorde, born Audrey Geraldine Lorde
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Helen Keller
“Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.”
Margaret Mead
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”
John Adams
“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
George Washington Carver
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.”
U.S. President Barack Obama
“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this earth. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.”
Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”