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“We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. We are about to sacrifice the biosphere so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Isabel Wilkerson
“Many people may rightly say, “I had nothing to do with how this all started. I have nothing to do with the sins of the past. My ancestors never attacked indigenous people, never owned slaves.” And, yes. Not one of us was here when this house was built. Our immediate ancestors may have had nothing to do with it, but here we are, the current occupants of a property with stress cracks and bowed walls and fissures built into the foundation. We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it. We did not erect the uneven pillars or joists, but they are ours to deal with now.”
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

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