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Choose from one of the following quotes to write a well-written interpretation.

 

Directions and Template: Respond to Quote


 

Writing is hard fun.

 

Full effort is full victory.

 

Honesty is the best policy.





World Changers

 

 

Mahatma Ghandi, who lead change in India in the first half of the last century through non-violent actions.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

 

 

Margaret Mead, an American anthropologist, said,

 

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

 

And, on the third Monday of January, we celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr whose "I Have a Dream" speech has inspired many to dream of a place where

 

"my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged

by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

 



Hank Aaron

 

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

 

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.



Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

 

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

 

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

 

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

 

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

 

Center is a very tough position to play.

 

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

 

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

 

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

 

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

 



Michael Jordan

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

 

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

 

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

 

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

 

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

 

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

 

I never thought a role model should be negative.

 

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

 

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

 

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

 

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

 

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

 

I've never been afraid to fail.

 

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

 

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.



Friendship:

 

Abraham Lincoln:

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

 

Albert Camus:

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

 

Alice Walker:

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

 

Blaise Pascal:

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

 

C.S. Lewis:

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."

 

Charlie Daniels:

A brief candle; both ends burning

An endless mile; a bus wheel turning

A friend to share the lonesome times

A handshake and a sip of wine

So say it loud and let it ring

We are all a part of everything

The future, present and the past

Fly on proud bird

You're free at last.

written en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.


Writing

"The truth is, we can all destroy our own silences by picking up a pen or pencil-by starting with "I"."  - Edwidge Danticat

Writing is hard fun.   ~ Donald Murray

"Re-vision is re-seeing the topic so the writer can discover meaning. Editing is making the meaning clear so a reader can understand." - Donald Murray -

Virginia Woolf noted, "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."


Justice

     Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

     Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Jim Corbett

    Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

    In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

     Fairness is what justice really is.

Potter Stewart

    Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

    We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Mohandas Gandhi

    There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Mohandas Gandhi

     Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mohandas Gandhi

     The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Helen Keller

     I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

    A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Ralph Nader

    The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Friedrich Schiller

    Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Ian Smith


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