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What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them? – Jane Addams

I am invincible. So are you. We do all the things they say we can’t do. – Ani Difranco

“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.”
- Raymond Chandler

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintigration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” — Lemony Snicket

“We are faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is not a time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr

“It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and equality.” – Barack Obama

“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”
- Goethe

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: “Do not do what you are doing now.” – Joseph Ray

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Ghandi

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” -MLK, Jr.

“In this country sometimes we forget that we have the capacity to shape our own destiny.” – Obama campaign worker

“You’ll do fine. People have phenomenal capacity.” – The West Wing

“Out of many, we are one; while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can.” – Barack Obama

and it was way more amazing the second time. chris martin is pretty great all around. :)