You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. -Phil Ochs

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. -Margaret Mead

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.  -President Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.  -President Barack Obama

“Societies and cultures are really complicated. This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry. These are living organisms, and it’s messy. And your job as a citizen and as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understanding. And you should anticipate that at any given moment there’s going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn’t stop … You don’t get into a fetal position about it. You don’t start worrying about apocalypse. You say, O.K., where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward.”  – Barack Obama

It’s as true today as it ever was, he who seeks beauty will find it. – Bill Cunningham

“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession.” -Hillary Rodham Clinton

“And now we have the opportunity to create more change. I want my daughter to grow up seeing a woman lead our country and know that her possibilities are limitless. We have to think about the future of our daughters, our sons and vote for someone who cares for them as much as we do. And that is why I’m with her.” -Beyoncé