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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.


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You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.



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Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.



In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.



I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.



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Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.



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Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.



I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.



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Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.



Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.



Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.





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I don't follow politics it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?



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Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.



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The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.



I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.




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The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.



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In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!



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