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		The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Natasha Trethewey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Naoto Kan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Octavia E. Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Manny Montana 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edmund White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathaniel Hawthorne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ted Danson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malala Yousafzai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Naomi Wolf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Irwin Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sam Snead 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sal Mineo