To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try. — Rosa Parks

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For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

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If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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Don't be afraid of change, embrace it and grow.

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Be the change that you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers

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Nobody's free until everybody's free.- Fannie Lou Hamer

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