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“The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.”

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Francois de la Noue

French philosopher and politician during the Renaissance. François de la Noue is a significant figure of the French Renaissance, known for his philosophical and political ideas. more

“At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.”

Knows Feels Moments Helping Feelings Dark Impossible Racism Constant Injustice Spread Oppression Brighter Gloom Brighter Days

Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke

“hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.”

Feels Hard Seems Bears Racism Hatred Prejudice Forgiving Oppression Injury Oppressors Hard To Forgive

Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke

“Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.”

Facts Certain Causes Born Gone Effects Events Endless Chains Stand Alone

Author:Julian Johnson

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