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"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation."
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."

"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."

"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be."

"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place."
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