Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

Lorraine Hansberry's Popular Quotes

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also can…

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[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mira…

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One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

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There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of th…

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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more inter…

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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

- Lorraine Hansberry