There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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You really can change the world if you care enough.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
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No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.
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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.
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