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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The best revenge is to improve yourself. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

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I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.

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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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We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here. ― Sojourner Truth

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Know yourself to improve yourself. — Auguste Comte

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Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that. ― Sojourner Truth

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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. ― 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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