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We know what we are,
but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare, 16th-Century English
Playwright and Poet
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You must be the change
you seek in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The first step in
embracing change is
embracing yourself
totally and completely.
Mary-Frances Winters
from Only Wet Babies Like Change
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The mind has exactly
the same power as the hands;
not merely to grasp the world,
but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Contemporary British Author
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If in the last few years
you haven't discarded a major opinion
or acquired a new one,
check your pulse.
You may be dead.
Gelett Burgess
20th-Century American Writer,
Poet, Humorist
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You cannot step twice
into the same river,
for other waters
are continually flowing in.
Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher(540 B.C. -475 B.C)
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Let him that would
move the world
first move himself.
Socrates
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Everyone is a prisoner
of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices--
just recognize them.
Edward Roscoe Murrow
20th-Century American Broadcast Journalist
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Things do not change:
we change.
Hery David Thoreau
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Notice that the stiffest tree
is most easily cracked,
while the bamboo or willow survives
by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
20th-Century American Actor and Martial Artist
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If you're going to hold someone
down you're going to have to hold
on by the other end of the chain.
You are confined by your own
repression.
Toni Morrison
Contemporary African-American Author
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There is nothing like
returning to a place
that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which
you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandella
Former President of the Republic of
South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
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Change is growth and conversely growth is change.
Opening yourself to change takes courage.
Opening yourself to change requires a certain amount of self-knowledge.
Being open to change is being open to limitless possibilities.
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Hatred, which can destroy
so much, never failed to destroy
the man who hated,
and this was an immutable law.
James Baldwin
20th Century African-American Author
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In what ways do I exclude?
How do I contribute to intolerance?
What are my blind spots?
We are all prejudiced because of the way we experience the world...
When we don't know we generally first think negatively.
The unknown, the different, is usually cons
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As long as you keep a person
down, some part of you has to be
down there to hold the person
down, so it means you cannot soar
as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
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Prejudices, it is well known,
are most difficult to eradicate
from the heart whose soil has
never been loosened or fertilized
by education; they grow there,
firm as weeds among rocks.
Charlotte Bronte
19th-Century British Author
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I Imagine that one of the reasons
that people cling to their hates so
stubbornly is because they sense,
once hate is gone, that they will be
forced to deal with the pain.
James Baldwin
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Whatever one of us blames
in another, each will find in his
own heart.
Seneca Roman Philosopher ( 3B.C.-65 A.D. )
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The only justification
for ever looking down on
somebody is to pick them up.
Jesse Jackson
Contemporary African-American
Civil Rights Leader
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