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/ page 1199 of 1205 /I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.
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You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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We know you are enslaved when you are in a democracy without the right to vote, but when you are in a free enterprise system, in capitalism, without equal access to capital, we still have problems. Equal access to capital means equal access also to education and employment opportunity, so we still have a long way to go on Martin Luther King's dream.
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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They only babble who practise not reflection.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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