clark university honors martin luther king jr
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY OF SERVICE
PRODUCED BY
THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIONCLARK UNIVERSITY
SPECIAL THANKS TO:COMMITTEE ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
COMMITTEE ON CAMPUS CLIMATE OFFICE OF ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
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“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks
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“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”
Huey Newton
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“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students.”
Yuri Kochiyama
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“Despite the hardships that I have encountered, the most important thing to realize is that invisibility is not an acceptable solution to oppression.”
Sylvia Rivera
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Alice Walker
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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
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“When a system of oppression has become institutionalized, it is unnecessary for the individuals to be oppressive.”
Florynce Kennedy
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“In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.”
Shirley Chisholm
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“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
Audre Lorde
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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows exactly how expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin
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“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?”
Angela Davis
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“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
Cesar Chavez
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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.”
Maya Angelou
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Who does not know of literature banned because it is interrogative; discredited because it is critical; erased because alternate?
Toni Morrison
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“The present moment contains past and future.The secret of transformation,is in the way we handle this very moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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“The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.”
Desmond Tutu
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“Being oppressed means the absence of choices.”
bell hooks
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity.”
Dalai Lama
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“Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”
Arundhati Roy
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“Oriental was a rug that everyone steps on, so we ain’t no Orientals. We were Asian American.”
Richard Aoki
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Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
Toni Morrison
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“If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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“The future belongs to those who cultivate cultural sensitivities to differences and who use these abilities to forge a hybrid consciousness that transcends the “us” vs. “them” mentality.”
Gloria Anzaldúa
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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