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Taking an optimistic viewpoint, the tumult in our external world may be prompting us to go inside ourselves and reevaluate our core values. It may even usher us into a new spiritual paradigm where the currency is how many people we can inspire versus how many things we can acquire.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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For more, read The Power of… PERSPECTIVE.

As a consumption-based society, we are used to acquiring external things versus inquiring within. We are not very comfortable with the unknown.
- Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy
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For more, read The Power of… ZERO

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
- Bob Marley

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
- Janet Jackson