You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. ― Sojourner Truth

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How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

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Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another. ― 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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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. ― Sojourner Truth

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It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ― Rumi

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Every year I improve. - Luca Toni

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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. - Ralph Marston

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ― Frank Herbert

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