“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
Harold Kushner

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
Barack Obama

 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin

“Charity is a matter of personal attributes; justice is a matter of public
policy. Charity seeks to alleviate the effects of injustice; justice seeks to
eliminate the causes of it.”
Rev. William Sloan Coffin

“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.”
Maya Angelou

“The past is your lesson. The present is your gift. The future is your motivation.” Anonymous

 “To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.”
Nikki Giovanni

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” Cesar Chavez

 “No one’s perfect. And we’ve all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.”

Chuck Norris

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
Maya Angelou

 “Keep standin’ tall and lookin’ good.” Donna Rae Wolf, my grandmother

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass

“It’s not how many times you get knocked down that count, it’s how many times you get back up.”
George A Custer

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop

“Nothing will work unless you do.” Maya Angelou

“We are stronger together.” Charles

“When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.”
Steve Maraboli

“They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou

“There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.”
Sister Mary Rose McGeady

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Carl Bard