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“After a minute, I said, “I never wanted to be a hero.” His face was solemn. “Nobody ever does.”

Book:A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

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“We were singing for Dr. Du Bois' spirit, for the invaluable contributions he made, for his shining intellect and his courage. To many of us he was the first American Negro intellectual. We knew about Jack Johnson and Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. We were proud of Louis Armstrong and Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes. We memorized the verses of James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Countee Cullen, but they were athletes, musicians and poets, and White folks thought all those talents came naturally to Negroes. So, while we survived because of those contributors and their contributions, the powerful White world didn't stand in awe of them. Sadly, we also tended to take those brilliances for granted. But W.E.B. Du Bois and of course Paul Robeson were different, held on a higher or at least on a different plateau than the others.”

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Book:All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“Folks don’t give themselves enough credit. The mother who endures cavities so her children can get braces. The father who works a dead-end job so his kids can have a roof over their heads. The daughter who sacrifices college so she can take care of her disabled mother. They are all heroes.”

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Book:The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

Source: The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudgingly, if at all.”

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Book:Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

“You know Jyn Erso?” she began, because if they didn’t the rest of the story would be meaningless. “The woman who started it all and destroyed the Death Star? The first one, the real one, I mean.” “General Skywalker and Red Squadron destroyed the Death Star,” Nath said. “Skywalker fired the last shot, was all. Jyn did everything that mattered.”

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Book:Alphabet Squadron

Source: Alphabet Squadron

“Heroes don't stand in line, they set out alone into the unknown and lines form behind them.”

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Book:Revolution Indomable

Source: Revolution Indomable

“. . . all nations twist history and cleanse their heroes in order to express an ideal to live up to.”

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Book:Stephen Fry in America

Source: Stephen Fry in America

“What does freedom mean? It means warriors are fighting for you, defenses are protecting you, and soldiers are sacrificing to preserve your ability to speak, to act, to live, and to express yourself in a world where a great many aggressors would oppress those freedoms if not for the heroic resistance preventing them.”

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Book:Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Du pakket dynen rundt oss og sa: Helter er mennesker de og.”

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Book:Det høres alltid ut som om det regner når jeg er med deg

Source: Det høres alltid ut som om det regner når jeg er med deg

“My children are the survivors, and heroes that for so long have lived in an encapsulated environment that has rendered them caged Supermen that were not allowed to bleed, be human, nor show their talents to their fullest extent, be Supermen in public.”

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Book:Heroes Have the Right to Bleed

Source: Heroes Have the Right to Bleed

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