And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
ABERJHANIAnd therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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As goes love so goes life.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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