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“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

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Author:Lou Holtz
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“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”

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Author:Carol Moseley Braun
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“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman
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“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.”

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Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
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“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

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Author:Malcolm X
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“When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).”

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Author:Shirley Chisholm
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“I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...”

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Author:Shirley Chisholm
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

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Author:Coretta Scott King
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“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

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Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation
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“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

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Author:June Jordan
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“I am the dream and the hope of the slave”

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Book:Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
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