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“Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy.” —Thomas Merton

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“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it.” – Nikki Giovanni

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“We pray to you, O God, for strength, determination and will power, to do instead of just pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

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– Adapted from “We Cannot Merely Pray” by Rabbi Jack Riemer

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“Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” – Rep. John Lewis

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