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| The following quotes have inspired the development of the Appalachian Scholars Program. Please choose one of the quotes from the short essay category and respond to the quote as it applies to your personal experiences.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin.
Benjamin E. Mays, Educator
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau, Author
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde, Author
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez, Activist
You can do anything you want to, it's easy, the hardest part is that you have to believe you can do it, the rest is a piece of cake.
Jaime Escalante, Educator
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass, Activist
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller, American Author and Educator
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist/Writer
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...some women write because there is in them a message to be given, and they cannot die until they have spoken it.
Rebecca Harding Davis, Author/Human Rights Advocate
We have an infinite amount to learn from nature and each other.
John Glenn, Senator/Astronaut
...I soon demonstrated that a man with a plan always had the advantage over an unsuspecting person. Second, timing of execution was even more important than a plan.
John Parker, African American Abolitionist/Inventor
Let all the friends of justice and suffering humanity, do what little they can, in their several circles, and according to their various stations, capacities and opportunities; and their little streams of exertion will, in process of time, flow together, and constitute a mighty river that shall sweep away the yoke of oppression, and purge our nation from the abominations of slavery.
John Rankin, Abolitionist
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Walter Reuther, Union Organizer
I began in Ohio. I still dream of home.
James Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning Poet
A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.
Homer Hickam, Author |
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