I thank my mother, Terezinha, ...

I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.
I thank my mother, Terezinha, for the power of her transforming love.
 Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

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This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
 Henri Bergson
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.
 Maria das Gracas Silva Foster