“We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”
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“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
― Second Glance
― Second Glance
“All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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Hello! I am a published children's book author and illustrator! I have published 12 books throughout my writing career so far, illustrated greeting ca ...more
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