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“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

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Book:Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi
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“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings
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“Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”

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Book:Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
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“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.”

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Book:The History of Early Rome
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“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

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Book:Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
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