#depend

The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences. ↗

— Melba Pattillo Beals

#respect

We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#independence #respect #respect

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#complacency #ethics #independence #politics #proactivity

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#interdependence #loyalty #loyalty

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#conformity #declaration-of-independence #hope #individuality #non-conformity

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #ignoring #independent #joy #responsibility

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. ↗

— Willie Aames

#bad #bad thing #being #depends #good

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#broadly #epic #epic poetry #independently #invented

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ↗

— Jane Addams

#depends #itself #much #process #result