“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax …

“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.” — William James …

“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson …

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa …

“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” — Huey Newton …

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.” — Gil Scott Heron …

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” — H.L. Mencken …

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” — Robert Ingersoll
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“A sense of deficient emptiness pervades out entire culture. The drug addict is more painfully conscious of this void than most people and has limited means of escaping it. The rest of us find other ways of suppressing our fear of emptiness or distracting ourselves from it.” — Gabor Mate …

“No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last.” — Michelle Alexander …