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It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.



No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.



Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.



The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.



It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.



You really can change the world if you care enough.



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.



Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.



Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.



The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people`s children.



The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?



You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.



The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.



The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place



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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