"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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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"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."

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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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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"

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"You really can change the world if you care enough."

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

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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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"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."

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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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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."

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