Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

About Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

—Margaret Mead

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

—Margaret Mead

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

—Margaret Mead

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

—Margaret Mead

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Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

—Margaret Mead

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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

—Kristin Hunter

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Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

—Budd Schulberg

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

—Aristotle

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What may be wealth to an individual may not be wealth to a community.

—Henry George

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You find lots of little things going on in every community in the country. If there is a world here in a hundred years, it will not be due to any big organization of any sort, no big political group, no big church, no big government. It is going to be saved by millions upon millions of little organizations. It might just be that what Jesus and Jeremiah and Mohammed and Buddha talked about will come true.

—Pete Seeger

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