I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ― Mother Teresa

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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

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Be the change you want to see. Mahatma Gandhi

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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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At any given moment you have the power to say ‘This is not how the story is going to end. — Christine Mason Miller

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All I know is that I do not know anything.

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You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

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