What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

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Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too. ― Anonymous

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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. — Lucille Ball

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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

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Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

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