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“You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.”

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Author:Will Smith

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

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Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.”

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Author:Vernon A. Walters

“The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.”

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Author:Ida B. Wells

“In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.”

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Author:Ida B. Wells

“Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.”

“American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.”

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Author:William Westmoreland

“There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.”

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Book:Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)

Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)