White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. ― Marilyn Monroe

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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. ― Rumi

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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. ― Mahatma Gandhi

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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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