"You are either free or not free."

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"Let each person decide his or her fate."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life cannot be exchange for anything."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beauty is the brightness of being."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Be life."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

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"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

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"Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."

Ethics, Justice, Defense, Morality

"A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan."

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"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."

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"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."

Society, Media, Power, Influence, Control

"Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power."

Politics, Power, Influence, Strategy, Control

"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."

Sociology, Society, Identity, Truth, Observation

"It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race."

Society, Hypocrisy, Race, Religion, Truth

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

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