Thoughts To Ponder

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"What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America." - Marian Wright Edleman - Children's Advocate

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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts":
Abraham Lincoln

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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives: James Madison

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"When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril" Harry S. Truman

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Between individuals, as between nations, peace means respect for the rights of others." - Benito Juarez, Zapoteca (1806-1872)

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"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Chief Seattle, Duwamish (1780-1866)

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"We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that." - Barbara Jordan

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njustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. ... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King - "Letter from a Birmingham Jail,"

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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." -Samuel P. Huntington

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human": - Aldous Huxley