Never doubt that a small group
of thoughtful committed citizens
can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
You cannot uneducate
the person who has learned to read...
we have seen the future
and the future is ours.
Most things worth doing
had been declared impossible
before they were done.
Democracy is based on extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary people.
The most common way
people give up their power is by
thinking they don’t have any.
If you think
education is expensive,
try ignorance.
Life's most urgent
question is,
what are you doing for others?
What is hateful to you,
do not do to your neighbor:
that is the whole Torah;
all the rest of it is commentary.
Do to others
whatever you would have
them do to you.
No one of you is a believer
until he desires for his brother
that which he desires for himself.
We want for all children
what we want for
our own children.
Democracy is not
a spectator sport.
We remember not
the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Education should not be
the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
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