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Educator Inspirational Quotes (2244)

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Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
Alice Walker
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
Alice Walker
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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.
Alice Walker
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
Alice Walker
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I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.
Alice Walker
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We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
Alice Walker
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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.
Alice Walker
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
Alice Walker
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Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
Alice Walker
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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.
Alice Walker
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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
Alice Walker
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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
Alice Walker
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Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
Alice Walker
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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
Alice Walker
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If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
Alice Walker
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If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
Alice Walker
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
Alice Walker
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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.
Alice Walker
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It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period
Alice Walker
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But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
Alice Walker
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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice Walker
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
Alice Walker
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The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory
Alice Walker
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