"But you have to have hope. You..." - Quote by John Lewis
But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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“You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.”
“We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.”
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“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
“Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.”
“But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning.”
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“I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond to my original idea,--that they correspond to nothing else so much; and thus a man may really be a true prophet without any great exertion. The day is never so dark, nor the night even, but that the laws at least of light still prevail, and so may make it light in our minds if they are open to the truth.”
“In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.”
“None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.”