#difference

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#making-a-difference #change

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#influence #justice #kindness #make-a-difference #oppression

Do I dare Disturb the universe? ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#courage #dreams #fear #make-a-difference #change

The primary difference between sex and death is, with death there is no dress code ↗

— Josh Stern

#difference #dress-code #humor #sex #death

I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling tiny does not have to end at why bother. ↗

— Wendy Tremayne

#making-a-difference #motivational #experience

We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness. ↗

— Vijay Prashad

#difference #faith

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them. ↗

— Margo Lanagan

#differences #families #family

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all. ↗

— Elizabeth Blake

#belonging #differences #identity #family

The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. ↗

— Philip Gourevitch

#apathy #auschewitz #evil #genocide #good

I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. ↗

— Mo Udall

#caucus #difference #i #i have learned #learned