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“For when a nation founded on the belief in racial hierarchy truly rejects that belief then and only then will we have discovered a new world. That is our destiny. To make it manifest, we must challenge ourselves to live our lives in solidarity across color, origin, and class. We must demand changes to the rules in order to disrupt the very notion that those who have more money are worth more in our democracy and our economy. Since this country’s founding, we have not allowed our diversity to be our superpower and the result is that the United States is not more than the sum of its disparate parts. But it could be. And if it were, all of us would prosper. In short, we must emerge from this crisis in our republic with a new birth of freedom. Rooted in the knowledge that we are so much more, when the we in we the people is not some of us, but all of us. We are greater than and greater for the sum of us.”
― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

“I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing,”
― James M. Kouzes, The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

“The profound love for America's ideals should unite all who call it home, of every color - and yet America has lied to her white children for centuries, offering them songs about freedom instead of the liberation of truth.”
― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together