Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

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People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

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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 keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

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I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. – Charles Dickens

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