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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go and do that, because what the world

needs is people who have come alive."  

- Howard Thurman, African American pastor, philosopher, author including a book titled,“ Jesus and  the Disinherited,” influenced Martin Luther King

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again               be seen as the last best hope of earth."

- Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States

"This country will not be a good place for any of us to livei in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."

- Theodore Roosebelt, 26th President of the United States

“We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us - and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need

and yet refuses to help?”

- 1 John 3:16-17

“... Let us love, not just in word or speech, but in truth and action.”

- I John 3:18

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

- John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause

"Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the poor and needy."

- Proverbs 31:8-9

" The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected, like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.   Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."  - Chief Seattle

“You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.“ 

- Mother Teresa

 “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw, author

 "Store up in your hearts these parting words, be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." - Horace Mann, Educator

"To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success."

- Henry Ford, inventor, business leader

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-Thomas Edison, Inventor

"People say, 'What can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?' They cannot see that we can only lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment."

- Dorothy Day, counder of the Catholic Worker House movement

"We were born to succeed, not to fail." - Henry David Thoreau, author, philosopher

"Your world is as big as you make it."

- Georgia Douglas Johnson,author

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Helen Keller

 “By seeking higher ground we find common ground.” 

- Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, at this morning’s RESULTS Educational Fund International Conference

"It's funny how the harder I work, the more successful I become."

- Jack Warner, filmmaker

"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."
-- Benjamin Franklin

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