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Sharila

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Sharila’s Quotes

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: strength

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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

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“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspirational, love

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“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

tags: philosophy, politics

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“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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