{"quotes":[{"text":"Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["advocate-for-compassion","advocating-for-compassion","belife-in-humanith","coexistence","confronting-change","contemporary-poetry","courage","creative-arts","cultural-arts","diversity-in-literature","diversity-in-publishing","humility","inspiration","inspiring","leaderhsip","leadership-strategies","literature","love-for-humanity","mlk-day","motivation","national-poetry-month","nonviolence-jihadism","npm17","poets-for-change","positive-motivation","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-compassion","practicing-peace","self-empowerment","sorrow","speaking-truth-to-power","strategic-leadership","wisdom","world-poetry-day","writing-poetry"],"id":159396,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"These days, a sling of truth, still can make Goliath fall.","author":"Tom Althouse","tags":["courage","facing-fears","fighting-for-truth","speaking-truth-to-power","standing-up-for-what-is-right"],"id":198586,"author_id":"Tom+Althouse"},{"text":"It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["adapting-to-change","advocacy","advocating","advocating-for-peace","america-under-donald-trump","circumstances-and-attitude","circumstances-in-life","civic-duty","civic-responsibility","communication","confrontations","confronting-fears","confronting-problems","courage","dealing-with-change","faith-in-humanity","human-rights-activismtivism","human-rights-day","keeping-hope-alive","life-s-ncessities","necessary-things","non-aggression-principle","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","nonviolent-jahid","philosophy-of-truth","political-activism","political-philosophy","political-power","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","power-of-thoughts","power-of-words","for-new-year-2017","speak-truth-to-power","speaking-truth-to-power","truth"],"id":322350,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["action","activism","activism-inspiration","activists","adversary","adversity-and-attitude","advice","advice-for-life","advice","advocacy","advocate","advocate-for-compassion","advocating","advocating-for-peace","be-the-change","be-the-change","be-the-change-you-wish-to-see","condemn","condemnation","denounce","germany-kent","germany-kent","hope-guru","human-rights","human-rights-activists","humanism","humanity-and-society","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life-philosophy-inspirational","life-truths","powerful","powerful-forces","powerful-people","powerful","powerful","powerful-women","powerful-words","purpose","purpose","purposeful","revelation","society","society-humanity","society-problem","society","society-thinking","society-views","speak","speak-up","speaking","speaking-out","speaking-the-truth","speaking-truth-to-power","speaking-truths","speaking-up","speaking-your-mind","stand-for-something","stand-for-something-positive","stand-for-something-right","support","support","supportive-actions","supportive","the-hope-guru","today","today-is-later","today-is-the-day","today-s-society","transcend","transformation","transparency","transparent","truth","truth-inspirational","truth-of-life","truth","truth-telling","truthful","truths","youth-outreach"],"id":382909,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}
