My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you. — Mavis Staples

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. -- Walt Whitman

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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her.

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Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.

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And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love. -- Walt Whitman

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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman

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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. - KARL MARX

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We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out. - John Lewis

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