SimplyNeo Quotes

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn’t say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn’t have a mental or physical handicap. He said, “Let all children come unto me.”

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

I’m doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I’m really grateful to have something that I’m passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?

If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back — but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.