"It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!”
“My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.”
“It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.”

Source : "Elisabeth Shue Talks Lingerie With AM". Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com. April 2, 2010.
“And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.”
“I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”

Source : "A belated salute for war heroine" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2004.
“We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is forbidden by the constitutions is yet another example of targeting Muslim communities because they are seen as different, or exceptional in other ways.”
“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.”
“Life is the best and only timekeeper.”

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