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- "If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."--Shirley Chisholm
- "Let this radicalize you rather than lead to despair."--Mariame Kaba
- "If you're going through hell, keep going."--Winston Churchill (allegedly)
- "Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for."--J. R. R. Tolkein - ""I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.""--J. R. R. Tolkein - "There's so many things we're not
But with what we have, I promise you that
We're marchin' on
We're marchin' on
We're marchin' on"--OneRepublic - "Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me."--Sojourner Truth
- "I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back."--Malala Yousafzai
- "To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."--Rosa Parks
- "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."--Maya Angelou
- "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."--Anne Frank
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."--Theodore Roosevelt
- "They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway."--Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
(Prompt by me)
"Kid's Folding Chair" by Matt Swaim. Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic.
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