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Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.


Nellie L. McClung


#inspirational #inspirational

Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.


Murray Kempton


#activism-inspiration #american-history #ethics #myth #revolution

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.


Bill Gates


#choices #life #society #life

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.


Walt Whitman


#service #family

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.


Wes "Scoop" Nisker


#media #news #media

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.


Mahatma Gandhi


#complicity #dissent #protest #truth-telling #silence

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.


Mother Teresa


#service #life

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#service #love

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.


Mike McCurry


#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.


Wynton Marsalis


#another #dr #fostered #king #modern