A collection of quotes which continue to encourage, challenge, inspire and delight me
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“Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who,by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.”
-Paulo Freire– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
“Go to the people
Love among them
Learn from them
Start with what you know
Build on what they have
But of the best leaders
When their task is done
They can say: we have done this ourselves”– Chinese Proverb
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“It helps now and then, to step back and take a long view.
We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. We may never see the end
results but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master
builders; ministers not messiahs;
we are prophets of a future not our own.”
– Oscar Romero
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“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
– Francis Bacon
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“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why,
yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however,
there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.”
-Albert Einstein
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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
“Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.”
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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she wanders 