"The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless."
"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest."
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Source: Oscar Solomon Straus (1913). “The American Spirit”
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