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“Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.”

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Elizabeth Edwards was an American attorney and political activist, recognized for her advocacy in health care reform and women's rights. She was the wife of former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards and used her platform to advocate for various social issues. more

“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.”

People Ifs Jobs Language Justice Answers Poverty Cutting Cry Abuse Refuse Deeper Frustration Facility Riot Unheard Anger Frustration

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.”

“Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.”

Eye Incarnation

Author:Laurence Olivier

“Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.”

Left Return Blessed Sorry Accidents Camden

Book:Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

“For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.”

Thinking Mind I Can Walks Journey Walking Legs Cease Wander Hiking Trails Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.”

Dream Process Events Dedication Fulfilled Underestimate Overestimate

Book:Failing Forward

Source: Failing Forward

“Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation”

Helping Nations Rich Profound Heritage Cultural Heritage

Author:Nelson Mandela

“If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.”

Source: Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel

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