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Sunday Inspiration: The Best We Can
Some days, doing “the best we can” may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
—Fred Rogers
Inspiration: Your Real Job
I tell my students, “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
—Toni Morrison
Sunday Inspiration: Prejudice
Sunday Inspiration: Poets
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
—Jonas Mekas
Sunday Inspiration: Change
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
—James Baldwin
Sunday Inspiration: Choices
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
—Nelson Mandela
Sunday Inspiration: Forgiveness
Sunday Inspiration: Protest
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel
Sunday Inspiration: Leaders
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
—Octavia E. Butler
Sunday Inspiration: Being Heard
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
—David W. Augsburger
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