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"In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me."
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"There comes a time in our life when we make ourselves a prisoner, we have to do everything possible to break ourselves free."
"If one's mind becomes conflict-free, that is 'moksha'; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life."
"We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people's mind."
"Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. It makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding."
"You are a creature meant to be free. Almost always, the person hardest to tell the truth to...is you. Once you can be honest with yourself, you'll find the strength and desire to be honest with others. It's the most freeing feeling imaginable. Go find a mirror and face yourself and your darkest truths. You have the light within you to chase away the dark demons that hold you down and push you back into the black corners of your past. You deserve better. You are a child of light and light hidden behind dark clouds, does nothing to brighten the world."
"Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance."
"A bird cannot love freely when caged."
"It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today's modern slavery."
"The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!"
"If one discloses everything in speech he 'designs' in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives."
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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
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