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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

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Anything we love can be saved.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.

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You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

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We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

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When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

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The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

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That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

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I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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