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June Jordan Poet, Activist
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"Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity."

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Felix Adler Philosopher, Social Reformer
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"People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture."

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Carol P. Christ Scholar
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"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake."

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Benjamin Hooks Civil Rights Leader
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"We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not."

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