Today’s Quote – 2007.09.17

“Each time a person stands up for an idea,” he said, ” or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, that person sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”

—Robert F. Kennedy

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Today’s Quote – 2007.08.12

“If people have moral courage to stand up to the smallest injustice-their own and others’-it’s kind of like practice for when the big ones come around.”

—Colleen Kelly

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