“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” — Robert G. Ingersoll …

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” — Cree Indian Proverb …

“The voices of transracial adoptees have been silenced, our experiences have been overshadowed and overruled by the glossy public image created by adoption agencies and sometimes even our own families. Our overall goal has been to provide a counter-narrative to the dominant story, which has been about us but not authored by us. We are not objects but rather subjects in our own histories. Our lives are impacted by the larger forces of colonization, racism, …

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” — Albert Einstein …

“Cuando la Cultura Muere, La Gente Muere” (meaning, “When Culture Dies, the People Die.”) — El Centro’s Slogan …

“We have not inherited the world from our forefathers — we have borrowed it from our children.” – Kashmiri proverb …

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.” — Eleanor Roosevelt …

“If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives” — George Bernard Shaw …

“Environmental racism is racial discrimination in environmental policymaking. It is racial discrimination in the enforcement of regulations and laws. It is racial disccrimination in the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and the siting of polluting industries. It is racial discrimination in the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in communities of color. And, it is racial discrimination in the history of excluding people of color from …

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