"Freedom has never been free."

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Medgar Evers

“You don't have to be the best .... But, you have to be YOUR best.”
“In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.”

Source : "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.
“I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.”
“I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.”
“Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.”
“Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.”
“I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.”
“The early days of the end of the Clintonian control of the Democratic Party will be times when there are many opportunities for people and organizations to jump into the openings in the power hierarchy that is forming.”

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