Michael Downey 🚩 @downey@floss.social

"Don't mistake personality for character."

— Wilma Askinas

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"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."

-- Paul Wellstone

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Still true.

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"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

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"Do not be silent. There is no limit to the power that may be released though you."

- Howard Thurman
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"There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it’s now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it’s simply the way things are."

- US Senator Tammy Baldwin

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"Great moments in human history usually drive an opposition that is exactly proportional to their greatness."

-- John Perry Barlow

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"Getting kicked in the rear is a sure sign you're in the front." - Kenneth E. Reed #MondayMotivation #quotes #m

"Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance!"

-- Fritz Reiner, conductor
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"I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."

- Rollo May #quotes

"It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it."

— Hans Selye

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"To drift is to be in hell, to be in heaven is to steer."

- George Bernard Shaw #quotes

"To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination."

- Bell Hooks
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"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible."

- Thomas Robert Gaines #quotes

"When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change. But they cannot rest on just that change. It has to continue."

- Rosa Parks #quotes

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm #quotes

"To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation."

- Chinese Proverb

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"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

- Mahatma Gandhi #quotes

"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."

- Brené Brown
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