#stand

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#barefoot #change #change the world #children #dirt

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#always #decisions #failure #make #need

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#because #bone #even #fiber #flesh

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#i #laws #light #pathway #plain

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes. ↗

— Timothy Hutton

#here #i #one thing #people #their

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. ↗

— Hypatia

#beyond #comprehend #door #further #lie

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#american #american people #because #country #deserve

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#came #day #environmental #father #gut

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#against #bullying #children #free #harassment

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#like #me #stand-up #stand-up comedy #wrestling