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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often if feels as though you were moving backwards, and you lose sight of your goal: but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the upper hand at last.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Each of us struggles daily with the pressures of conformity and the loneliness of difference from which those choices seem to offer escape.
— Audre Lorde
Being out of work brought a lot of new and starkly instructive experiences.
— Audre Lorde
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.
— Ayn Rand
There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.
— Stephen Covey