Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. - Ida B. Wells

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

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I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. -Michael Jackson

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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people. - Ida B. Wells

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Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well. ― Germany Kent

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop. ― Libba Bray

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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. - Ida B. Wells

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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. - Ida B. Wells

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