"Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,"

-- Julian Bond

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“When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”
“There is no high-carbon future”

Source : "High-speed rail plan part of strategy to reduce transport emissions" Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.
“The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter; what you really need has been supplied. Life no longer need be about your goodness, success, righteousness, or failure. I've given you something infinitely more valuable than good feelings: your sins are forgiven."”
“In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence”
“A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.”
“Don't ever try to be somebody you're not.”
“I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.”

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