"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."

Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist

People, Martin, Waiting

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"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."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Education is a precondition to survival in America today."

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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."

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"My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values."

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"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."

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"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

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"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."

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"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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"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."

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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

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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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