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“Progress is usually born out of struggle. But struggle doesn’t always mean progress, does it? What do we need to add to struggle to create progress? The answer is hope. Hope, which attorney and author Bryan Stevenson told me is not a feeling but an orientation of the spirit. Hope is a choice that we make each morning, and we do not have the luxury of hopelessness if we want to see progress.”
― The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
― The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
“Facts don’t require our personal approval for them to be facts.”
― The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Spiral-Bound) [Spiral-bound] Sharon McMahon
― The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Spiral-Bound) [Spiral-bound] Sharon McMahon
“What will history remember with kindness? The leader with the most cunning tweets? The one with the most self-aggrandizing speeches and the biggest audiences? No, it’s not the cynics who emerge the heroes, but the people who spent their lives in service to others. It’s those that fight for justice for someone whose reflection they don’t see in the mirror.”
― The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
― The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History
Amelia’s 2025 Year in Books
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