"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
-Jesse Jackson
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"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.“
-Jesse Jackson
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"Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters."
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"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
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"At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division."
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"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."
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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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