Their goal wasn’t to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talent. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.

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If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? -- William Shakespeare

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As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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I sing for equality. There is none above humanity, nothing higher

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What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts, to Alexander Hamilton and Martin Luther King Jr. Not told as a separate history, but as part of the story we all know. Not at the margins, but at the very center, the protagonists of the drama. And not just because they are black, or because they are women, but because they are part of the American epic. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. -- Sheryl Sandberg

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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

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Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

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