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“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.”

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Book:The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.”

“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

“This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.”

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Author:Paul Robeson

“Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.”

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Book:Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

Source: Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.”

“I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.”

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Author:Augustus Washington

“If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.”

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Author:Pope Francis