"Nobody's free until everybody's free."

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Source : "Nobody's free until everybody's free" by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2014.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#Freedom Quotes

“All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. Iâ€™m always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.”
“The worst prison would be a closed heart.”
“Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.”
“The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.”
“The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.136, The Floating Press
“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.”
“But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.”
“When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.”

Source : Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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