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“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who…

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It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is…

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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

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I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to…

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In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a…

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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many…

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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families,…

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“Don’t feel entitled to anything you don’t sweat and struggle for”

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You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a…

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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do…

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It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the…

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Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

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The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was…

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It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

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Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at…

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone…

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