"I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions."

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Andrea Davis Pinkney

#People Quotes #Done Quotes #Conviction Quotes

“Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.”
“The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.”
“Love does not imply pacifism.”
“This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them reach their full potential.”
“American public should understand what happened with adoption and why, so that our government can be held accountable moving forward, and we can know how to engage in ethical adoptions, know how to make it something good for everyone involved, not exploitative.”

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“What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?”
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”

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