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I have spent most of my life
studying the lives of other peoples--
faraway peoples--
so that Americans might better
understand themselves.
Margaret Mead
20th-Century American Anthropologist
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance.
They are an invention,
a pretense that one knows
when the steps that would
make real knowing possible
cannot be taken or are not allowed.
Bell Hooks
Contemporary African-American
Educator and Author
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How do differences enhance who I am
and can become?
What can I learn from differences?
Valuing differences means we must first value ourselves.
Valuing differences means that we
listen and seek to understand.
Valuing differences means that we can
hold firm
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Invest in the human soul.
Who knows,
it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary Mcleod Bethune
Founder of Daytona Normal And Industrial
School for Negro Girls,
now Bethune-Cookman College
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As an individual, you can choose to expand yourKnowledge of others. If enough of us make such acommitment, we will move towards an inclusive world. Learning about others is akin tolearning about yourself. Learning about others expands our capacityAs
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Do not spill thy soul
running hither and yon,
grieving over the mistakes
and the vices of others;
the one person whom it is
most necessary to reform
is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must come to a greater
understanding of our connectedness.
We do not exist separate
from other life forms,
from other peoples of the world.
Mary-Frances Winters
From Unleashing Your True Potential
in the Workplace
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The sharing of joy, whether physical,
emotional, psychic, or intellectual,
forms a bridge between the sharers
which can be the basis for
understanding much of what is
not shared between them, and
lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde
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We need to listen to one another.
Chaim Potok
21st-Century American Theologian, Philosopher
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Sometimes our light goes out
but is blown into flame by
another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to
those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
20th-Century Philosopher, Physician,
and Humanitarian
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Everyone thinks of
changing the world,
but no one thinks of
changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
19th-Century Russian Author
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Our spirits areInextricably entwined. No matter where weHave been on our individualJourneys on this earthOr where we are going,We are One. Mary-Frances Winters
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As an individual, you can choose to expand your
knowledge of others. If enough of us make such a
commitment, we will move towards an inclusive world.
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I am playing with my Self,
I am playing with the world's soul,
I am the dialogue between
my Self and el espiritu mundo.
I change myself,
I change the world.
Gloria Anzaldua
Contemporary Chicana Poet
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The power to face transformation
with courage and resolve
comes from within-
from knowing and believing
in your authentic self.
Mary-Frances Winters
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Namaste means:
I honor that place in you
where the whole universe resides.
And when I am in that place in me
and you are in that place in you,
there is only one of us.
Anonymous
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We have experienced,
we have seen, we have done.
Embracing inclusion
requires change.
Opening yourself to change doesn't
mean that you become "wishy - washy"
without firm convictions
Remain open to the possibility
that there is a better way.
Opening yourself
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Don't fear change--embrace it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Contemporary American Author and Founder of
The Collegiate EmPowerment Company
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The first problem for all of us,
men and women,
is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
Contemporary American Author and
Women's Rights Activist
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Only the weak blame parents,
their race, their times,
lack of good fortune,
or the quirks of fate.
Everyone has it
within his power to say,
"This I am today;
that I will be tomorrow."
Louis L'Amour
20th-Century American Author
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