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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its… — Pearl S. Buck
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead… — Pearl S. Buck
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… — Unknown Author
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to… — Roger Casement
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences,… — Barbara Deming
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates… — Frantz Fanon
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men… — William Faulkner
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. — Anne Frank
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. — Andre Gide
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects… — Linda Hogan
We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're… — Benjamin Hooks
The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into… — Unknown Author
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is… — Jonathan Kozol
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you… — Abraham Lincoln
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain… — Rabindranath Tagore
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
In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are… — Zhang Zai
The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our… — Unknown Author
An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn vos Savant
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have… — Hannibal
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned — Duke of Wellington

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