Words of Wisdom

"The best age is the age you are." --Maggie Kuhn

"Speak your mind – even if your voice shakes – well aimed slingshots can topple giants."
--Maggie Kuhn

"Go to the top to change the system. Don’t moan and groan with like-minded souls. Do your homework – document complaints and recommendations.”
--Maggie Kuhn

"We are the risk-takers, we are the innovators, we are the developers of new models. We are trying the future on for size. That is our role.”
--Maggie Kuhn

"Do something outrageous every day."
--Maggie Kuhn

"Old is not a four letter word." --Ann Gerike

"Societies are renewed by people who believe in something, care about something, and stand for something."
-- John W. Gardner

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
-- Robert F. Kennedy

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the concerns of all humanity"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We've gone way overboard in thinking that taxes are evil or that government is flagrantly wasteful. Taxes are the way people join hands to get good things done. That's the tradition of Minnesota."
--Elmer L. Andersen (former MN Governor)

"If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"
--Rabbi Hillel

Source: U.S. Senate Historical Office

"Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world." --Sen. Paul Wellstone (MN)

"Government can be a force for good."
-- Paul Wellstone

"The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power that is the principal threat to our democracy."
-- Paul Wellstone

"If money equals speech, it’s easy to see whose doing all the talking."
-- Paul Wellstone

"We can remake the world daily."
-- Paul Wellstone

"I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."
--Fannie Lou Hamer

"Government must make sure that the power of wealth is used for and not against the interests of the people as a whole."
-- Teddy Roosevelt

"You really can change the world if you care enough."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

"I've lived a long time, and I've earned every wrinkle I have, and I don't think they look so bad." -- Marion Wright

"Don’t agonize. Organize."
-- Florence Kennedy

"Leave your comfort zone. Go stretch yourself for a good cause."
-- Kobi Yamada

"It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act."
-- The Dalai Lama

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