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If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

—Muhammad Ali

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Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

—Coco Chanel

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

—Virginia Woolf

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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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I've never been very good at feasting on the daily newspaper. It turns bitter in my mouth. And yet, this is my world. This face of suffering I must embrace as a part of my responsibility. Part of the feast is becoming aware of the world that is mine. Part of the feast is owning this broken world as my own brokenness.

—Macrina Wiederkehr

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The space between our mouth and the people’s ears, or eyes, who receive what we make, that is holy ground.

—Fred Rogers

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I think all people would like to feel that they’re a necessary part of life. That they’re necessary in the world, and that life would be poorer if they weren’t in it. When you accomplish something, when you write good poetry, then I think you feel that the world would be slightly different if you weren’t in it. And that, I think, is part of what being needed is about.

—Kenneth Koch

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A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.

—Mae West

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

—Bertrand Russell

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

—Elie Wiesel

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We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

—Hannah Arendt

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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

—Nellie McClung

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

—Malcolm X

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