The Institute for Basic Change
  • Believe mightily in every young person's endless potential.
  • Laughing lowers your blood pressure, increases immune function.
  • Not having enough fun? Consult experts immediately.
  • -from a speech she made at her own college graduation ceremony
  • I will not retreat a single inch!!
  • IBC youth program.
  • Creating, listening, dancing: Music is a huge resource for maintaining our resilience.
  • His conceptions of forgiveness can improve any workplace, any relationship.
  • Masai Village: Kenya
  • Great relationships will buffer the greatest career challenges.
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Support young people's leadership and decision making.
  • A lifted child reaches higher.
  • What goes around--comes around. Give the people closest to you all you have.
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  • Long term goal:
  • Frederick Douglass
  • His conceptions of forgiveness can improve any workplace, any relationship.
  • William Lloyd Garrison: Breathing Fire
  • Jane Addams, from her college graduation speech as a 21 yr. old
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