"…for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."

"...the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone." -

"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

"As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.”

Mahatma Gandhi

"We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without." -

"What you have as heritage, take now as task; for thus you will make it your own."

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -

"You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do." -

"If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow." - Peter Drucker

“I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified--really genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly.” -

"Everything will turn out alright in the end, and if it's not alright, then it's not the end."

"...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."



"We cannot run society for the privileged and allow a significant portion of the population to be marginalized. It impacts the quality of life for all of us if we have 'throw-away' people. A justice system which tolerates injustice is doomed to collapse." - Leonard Noisette





"Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before. Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time." - Winston Churchill



"No amount of falls will really undo of us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are in the airing cupboard.... It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of his presence ." - C.S. Lewis



"Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist." - Audre Lourde



“Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.” - Malcolm Gladwell



"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." - Martin Luther King, Jr.



"As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us."- Chinua Achebe



“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela



“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race. Challenging these forms of racism is certainly necessary, as we must always remain vigilant, but it will do little to shake the foundations of the current system of control. The new caste system, unlike its predecessors, is officially colorblind. We must deal with it on its own terms.” - Michelle Alexander



“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mandela



"In my country we go to prison first and then become President." -Nelson Mandela







"Where there is no vision, people perish..." - Proverbs 29.18"Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them." - Hebrews 13:3"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is an excellent servant, but a terrible master." - P.T. Barnum"A man is at his strongest when he is willing to be vulnerable." - Paulo CoelhoBroad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain"I thanked him much for telling me the way he got his wealth, but chiefly for his wish that he might drink my noble health." - Lewis CarrollMy response to this stumbling is another test and I refuse to fail it. I will not waste this crisis...I will not wallow in self-pity nor will I beat myself up over something that is behind me and I've been forgiven for doing." - Brian Jorgenson"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett