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Johnnetta B. Cole Quotes: You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
         

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.


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While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.



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