A Quote by Marian Wright Edelman
It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.
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There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
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Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.
We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.
If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.
To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.
The people we send to Washington have to roll up their sleeves, stop the fighting, and work together on issues that are not political, not partisan, but personal to families across our state and our nation.
We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.
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Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.
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