I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

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The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race. - Medgar Evers

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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. – Dr. Seuss

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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata

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The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light. – S. Ajna

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou

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There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

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It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

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Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

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