"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react." – Gloria E. Anzaldúa

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." – Robert H. Schuller

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” - bell hooks

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.” -James Baldwin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare” - Maya Angelou

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – W.B. Yeats

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

“The educator has the duty of not being neutral.” —Paulo Freire

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Søren Kierkegaard

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." – Barack Obama

“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”― Albert Camus

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself." - Jane Addams

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” – Toni Morrison

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mandela