Ron Matis

“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.” - Robert Kennedy

“Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” ~ Jamie Anderson

“For all that has been—thanks! For all that shall be—yes!” - Dag Hammarskjold

“Every time you hesitate, someone less talented takes your spot. The world rewards audacity, not potential.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” - Mark Twain

“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.” - John F. Kennedy

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. " - Winston Churchill

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell

"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell

“God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible — what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.” — AW Tozer

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent." - Mignon McLaughlin

“If you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're in the stands with them.” - Tommy Lasorda

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Don't let anyone who hasn't been in your shoes tell you how to tie your laces.” - Derric Johnson

“Duty is ours, results are God’s - John Quincy Adams

“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle. Yet it is the one essential quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.” -Robert Kennedy

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” - A. Lincoln