If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. ― Sojourner Truth

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Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other? ― Sojourner Truth

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We have to collectively work together to improve the world.— Samuel Strauch

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I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. ― Sojourner Truth

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I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure. ― Anthony Bourdain

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associates and collaborators were Roger Penrose

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I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. ― Sojourner Truth

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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. ― Epictetus

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. ― Mary Lou Retton

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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

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