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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people… — James A. Baldwin
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. — Toni Cade Bambara
What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what… — Mary McLeod Bethune
Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to… — Troy Little
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values. — Bill Ayers
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer… — Shirley Chisholm
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality,… — Susan Faludi
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented… — Henry Highland Garnet
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather… — Dilys Laing
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! — James Russell Lowell
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,… — John Stuart Mill
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a… — Michel de Montaigne
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. — Michel de Montaigne
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. — Blaise Pascal
Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is… — Beah Richards
We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices… — Deborah Prothrow-Stith
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still… — R. H. Tawney
I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great… — Tecumseh
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make… — Tecumseh

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