"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

Henry James, American Writer

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!"

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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."

"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."