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"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination."
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"Success is a struggle, not a gift."
"There is no excuse to give for being a beggar. We all have imaginations to work out our dreams. Work yours out."
"Weel, ma am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there s now to be done wi out tryin -cept laying down and dying."
"You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!"
"To take the island, cut all sources of retreat. Burn your boats and go all in."
"How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits."
"If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger."
"There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way."
"Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight."
"The most difficult step ever is the first step. It comes with doubts, uncertainties, and all sort of fears. If you defy all odd and take it, your confidence will replicate very fast and you'll become a master!"
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"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order."
"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation."
"Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty."
"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."
"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination."
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