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“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

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Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. She was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. Born on April 27, 1927, she dedicated her life to the fight for racial equality and justice. After her husband's assassination in 1968, she continued to advocate for civil rights and social justice, becoming a powerful voice for peace and human rights. She passed away on January 30, 2006. more

“A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”

Source: Civil Wars

“I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”

“If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.”

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Author:Ralph Bunche

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