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God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.
We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.
School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.
Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
I think the I.R.S. is a Sword of Damocles over the First Amendment, and I think it is a menace.
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children
Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
Most people feel very strongly that Donald Trump is a threat to the nation. He must be defeated.
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
In some other life I must have been a pioneer woman because I love to have my hands in the dirt.
Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.
You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.
The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.
No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.
I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.
In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.
Many people who say they have financial problems really mean that they want more than they need.
Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.