Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.
If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.
I try to use social media as a tool for good. Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments. Of course it happens now and then. It's funny because let's say a rude or off-putting comment comes in, rather than ignore it, I'll talk to that person and there are so many times I've gotten apologies, like "I totally understand, I'm with you."
Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.
Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.
The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.
