Quotes

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“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.”

— Constance Baker Motley (First Black Woman in the U.S. to become a Federal Judge)

“Character is doing the right thing when no-one is watching.”

— J.C. Watt

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Be careful of your thoughts,
For your thoughts become your words;
Be careful of your words,
For your words become your deeds;
Be careful of your deeds,
For your deeds become your habits;
Be careful of your habits,
For your habits become your character;
Be careful of your character,
For your character becomes your destiny.”

— Anonymous

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr

“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

— Ben Elton, Blast from the Past

“I cannot condone the systematic destruction of the hope and spirit of people who have suffered hardship and pain to reach our shores. They are people who believe that they have been or are at risk of being persecuted in their own country.”

— Former Australian of the Year and one-time refugee John Yu Dr Yu, Chancellor of the University of NSW and a renowned pediatrician, was himself smuggled out of China as a three-year-old shortly before it fell to Japanese forces in World War II.

“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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