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Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we
can make for our children.
Sitting Bull
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is
pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
Excellence only comes with not being afraid of who you are.
Tom Spanbauer
I will myself test the power of my spirit.
from an Anishinabe song
I'm not deliberately different - I'm just me.
Albert Cullum
What i need is just to know I have a home within your heart.
David Wilcox / song lyrics
Children have more need of models, than of
critics.
Joseph Joubert
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Ralph Ellison
Without
a sacred center, one cannot know right from wrong.
Thomas
Yellowtail / Crow
The way to know life is to love many things
Vincent Van Gogh
Most of my heroes are just decent people.
Decency is rare and underrated.
Sherman Alexie
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner Truth
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
James Cone
Everybody needs a little forgiveness.
Jules
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a
lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
Guilt and regret are the two most useless
motivators for anything.
Jim Walsh
The greater the faith, the greater the
result.
Fools Crow
In the facades we put on for others we
demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.
Lawrence Kelemen
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change -it can not only move us,
it makes us move.
Ossie Davis
You will always have what you gave to love.
David Wilcox & Beth Nielsen Chapman / song lyrics
Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.
Michael Franti
I have found the best way to give advice to
your children is to find out what they want
and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
Believing people can soar beyond ordinary
life.
Fools Crow
Courage is the price that life exacts for
granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammed Ali
People
everywhere need healing. No one should judge another person by the color of his
or her skin. I consider anyone who walks in a sacred way and honors the earth to
be indigenous to our planet.
Annie Humphrey
Take the first step in faith. You don't have
to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
If we keep everything in balance, we are in
harmony with ourselves and are at peace.
Fools Crow
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the
good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Gandhi
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to
mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy
Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years
denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks
that brutalize your soul.
Bruce Bawer
We will have to repent in this generation not
merely for the hateful words and actions of
the bad people but for the appalling
silence of the good people.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how
justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to
one's courage.
Anais Nin
Love is hope without doubt, hate is
fear turned out.
John Gorka / song lyrics
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
Ernest Gaines
Children have never been very good at
listening to adults but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
America is woven of many strands. I would recognize
them and let it so remain.
Ralph Ellison
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than
instruction.
Annie Sullivan
The best kind of politics is when you help people become their
own best selves.
Paul Wellstone
...remember and think about the closeness of
the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give
you endless strength and
hope.
Fools Crow
Politics is what we create by what we do,
what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
I can tell you that understanding begins
with love and respect. It begins with respect for the Great Spirit.
All things-
and I mean ALL things-have their own will and their own way and their own
purpose; this is
what is to be respected.
Rolling
Thunder
My life, like all lives, began within
the context of relationships... it is the
content and energy of all one’s relationships
that results in the character of
each single person.
Jaiya John
God made me an Indian.
Chief Sitting Bull
We do not want riches, but we do want to train our
children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to
the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Makhpiya-luta / Red Cloud
Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the
world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it
must be demanded by the oppressed.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Question everything. Every stripe,
every star, every word spoken. Everything.
Ernest J Gaines
Will you teach your children what we have taught our
children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the
sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs
to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. 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. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The
earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its
creator.
Chief Seattle
If i destroy you, I destroy myself. If i honor you, I
honor myself.
Hunbatz Men / Mayan
The human race
is
the face of all people, different tongues, one heart.
Keith Secola
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Johann Schiller
When peoples care for you and cry for
you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes
...i am not going to die, i'm going home like a shooting
star.
Sojourner Truth
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
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Harvey Milk
...then the man from the Native Church stood and he said
'In our teachings, if someone withholds a blessing,
then they have no blessing to give.
Stop asking these men to bless your relationship.
You do that in your hearts every day.
That's all the blessing it needs'.
Mark Weigle / from his song 'Blessing' (gay couples' commitments)
Homophobia is like
racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to
dehumanize a large group of
people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood...
Coretta Scott King
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.
And You... And You... And You... Gotta give em hope.
Harvey Milk
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the
weak and strong. Because someday in
life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Peace is a product of justice, but justice is not enough.
Love is necessary - the love that makes us feel that
we are brothers and sisters is properly what makes for true peace.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
I am not a liberator.
Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.
Ernesto Che Guevara
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well
matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that
one has reached in life as by the
obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Creative self-expression is a prime vehicle for personal
growth.
Jaiya John
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
Live your gift.
Patty Peterson
Potential ain't shit if U don't do nothing with it
Tish Jones
Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in
a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker
A society that has more justice is a
society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
The Creator is always there for you no matter the time, place
or what you need.
Ron / Offstreets youth
Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'.
Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
Stevie Wonder
Show some love.
Show some respect.
George 'MauMau' Coleman
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