“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” — Frederick Douglass “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die f

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” — Shirley Chisholm “Where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.” — Barack Obama “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

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