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Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono [@yokoono]. "Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it...like the salt in your food." Twitter, 27 Mar. 2016, 3:12 p.m., twitter.com/yokoono/status/714168108844523520.

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If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

Pope Francis

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Pope Francis. "On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, 'Who Am I to Judge?" The New York Times, July 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html

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Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

Malala Yousafzai

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Yousafzai, Malala. "Malala Yousafzai: The Girls' Hero." Glamour Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013.

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I've often fantasized I would get a lot of writing done if I were put in prison for a minor crime. Three to six months.

Amy Tan

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Tan, Amy. "Amy Tan: By the Book." The New York Times, 14 Nov. 2013.

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There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Patti Smith

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Smith, Patti. Quoted in National Book Award for Patti Smith, written by Julie Bosman. New York Times, 17 Nov. 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/books/18awards.html

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Toni Morrison

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Morrison, Toni. "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear." The Nation: 150th Anniversary Special, 23 Mar. 2015.

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Generosity truly is the best investment.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Von Furstenberg, Diane. "Diane von Furstenberg Talks 6th Annual DVF Awards." Good Morning America, 9 Mar. 2015.

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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

Angela Davis

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Davis, Angela. "Ferguson Reminds Us of the Importance of a Global Context." Interviewed by Frank Barat. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books, 2016.

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Morning reading-like morning newspapers, morning sex, morning lie-ins, and morning running-is the luxury of childless people.

Zadie Smith

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Smith, Zadie. "Zadie Smith: By the Book." The New York Times, 20 Nov. 2016.

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We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 2013, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 2013, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.

Donald Trump

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump

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Trump, Donald. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2017, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, "You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth."

Maya Angelou

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Angelou, Maya. Interviewed by Belinda Luscome. Time, 8 Apr. 2013.

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Jessie's right! Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!

Toy Story 3

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Toy Story 3. Directed by Lee Unkrich. Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios, 2010.

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I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.

The King's Speech

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The King's Speech. Directed by Tom Hooper, UK Film Council/Momentum Pictures/Aegis Film Fund Molinare, London/FilmNation Entertainment/See-Saw Films/Bedlam Productions, 2010.

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Everyone repeats themselves.

Rachel Whiteread

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Whiteread, Rachel. "Rachel Whiteread: 'I Couldn't Say No. It Felt Right to Do This One.'" Interviewed by Rachel Cooke. Guardian, Jul 7, 2012, www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/07/rachel-whiteread-whitechapel-art-interviewchapel-art-interview.

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One thing that I really like about teaching is that you have to work very hard not to lose the respect of your students.

Tania Bruguera

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Bruguera, Tania. Interviewed by Erik Wenzel. Artslant, May 2013, www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom/22895-tania-bruguera.

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Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here?

Maya Lin

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Lin, Maya. Interviewed by Rebecca Gross. NEA Arts Magazine, no. 4, 2011, www.arts.gov/stories/magazine/2011/4/what-innovation/maya-lin

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We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage.

Ruby Sales

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Sales, Ruby. "Where Does It Hurt?" Interviewed by Krista Tippett. On Being. WNYC, 15 Sept 2016.

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Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.