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Street Roots • Dec. 28,'201'8-Jan 3, 2019
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 2018 NEWSMAKERS
January 19
January 5
“When we were in
caves, we were not
sending job
applications to
anybody. We took care
of ourselves and did
that for hundreds of
thousands of years.
We have to go back to
rediscover ourselves
as creative people,
entrepreneurs,”
Muhammad
Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize winner
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“Children living in
homelessness
experience chronic
stress at such higher
levels that that part of
their brains is constantly
triggered, and that
prevents you from
higher-level thinking. And
learning is one of those
higher-level-thinking
experiences. So it takes
a long time once a child
enters a school to be
able to develop enough
trust in their environment
for that part of their brain
to be able to calm down
enough that they’re able
February 9
January 26
, “We have a
responsibility, every
one of us. We may
think we live a long
way from the
oceans, but we
don’t.”
David
Attenborough
Narrator, “Blue Planet II”
Carl Wolfson
to learn.”
Nina Fekaris
President,
National Association
of School Nurses
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March 30
.“ I’ll never forget the
student I met in Iowa
who told me she was
about to become the
first in her family to
graduate from college,
and she was graduating
thanks to two things:
scholarships and birth
control.”
Cecile Richards
Former president of Planned
Parenthood Federation of
America
April 20
“ People have forgotten
what these protests
were about. Somehow,
it has transformed into
being about the military
or the flag, but those
weren’t the reasons
Kaepernick listed for
taking a knee. It was
about the constant
killings at the hands of
the police of unarmed
black men and women
without any form of
accountability for the
police.”
“ I see no other
alternative to pushing
back and being able to
unmask him as a
fraud, joke or someone
unfit for office. I
understand that there
is the danger of
normalization, but you
can’t stifle the
resistance, whether it’s
in organization, speech
or in comedy. In the
end, you have to hope
that enough people
see the truth behind
the joke.”
May 25
“ Most leaders don’t
take long to figure out
that together,
everyone achieves
more. I’m sure that’s
one of the many
reasons George
pushed people to be
the best version of
themselves. That’s one
of the many things he
did throughout his life
- a carpenter that
helped build homes,
bridges, and most
importantly the people
around him.”
Mario Duke
A friend, in memory of
George Myron Mayes
Portland comedian
and author of “Slide!”
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“ I used to teach
middle school, i used
to teach sixth-grade
math, 11 -year olds,
which was great, and
it wasn’t their fault
that the world wasn’t
fair. It wasn’t their
fault that they grew
up in poverty. It
wasn’t their fault that
they grew up in the
projects. They didn’t
do anything wrong. It
was a system that
failed them. And
when I think about
my role as an adult, I
always think about
those kids. That it’s
one of my
responsibilities as an
adult to make sure
that they grow up in
a world with different
choices. They didn’t
do anything wrong,
and they shouldn’t
be penalized for it.”
DeRay
Mckesson
“ People often ask,
‘What do I do?’ And
that depends. Where
do you live? What
are the problems
where you live? What
are you good at?
What do you have to
offer people? What
makes our world
good and interesting
is that we are all
different and that we
all have something to
offer and that
together it is
possible to turn this
around.”
Etan Thomas
Sarah Kendzior
Former NBA star and
author, “We Matter”
Political analyst and
author, “Flyover Country"
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