"Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer."

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“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

“When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth.”

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

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"In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee, advise and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent tho…"

— B. R. Ambedkar

Politics1891–1956

#Human Nature

"With me, sir, there is no alternative. Painfully convinced of the unutterable wrongs and woes of slavery; profoundly believing that, according to the true spirit of the Constitution and the sentiments…"

— Charles Sumner

Politics1811–1874

#justice

"But these things are often unknown to the world; for there is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. Ther…"

— George Eliot

Journalism1819–1880

#life

"I've traveled through every part of this nation. I have met and spoken with thousands of Hispanics from every walk of life, from every social and economic class. And one thing I hear most often from H…"

— Cesar Chavez

Social Activism1927–1993

#life