"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
-Marian Wright Edelman
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"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.“
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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
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"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree."
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
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"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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