Oppression makes a poor country.

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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

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I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery. - Robert Lucas, Jr.

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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness. ― Helen Keller

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If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

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Work hard in silence, and let your success be your noise ― Frank Ocean

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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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