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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Margaret Mead

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Civilization Life People Realize Way
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Government Guide Individual Institution Movement Passion Problem Social
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Healing Self Love Unique Yourself
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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Act Biology Human Myself Realize
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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Education Goodness Myself Possible School
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Family Impossible Relative Situation Support
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Adult Children Grow Measurement Problem Solution
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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Change Citizenship Doubt Small Thinking
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Destroy Environment Society
Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Beginning End Hands Life Voice
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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Home Human Need Old Wonder Yourself
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Animal Competition People
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Count Divorce Encouragement Knowledge Marriage People
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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