“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”– Chinua Achebe …

“The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.” — Ursula K. LeGuin

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“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise….” — Maya Angelou …

“To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.” – Christina Baldwin …

“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” — Robert Anthony …

“A great artist… must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.” — Goethe
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“…freedom and democracy are those values which are not possible to be donated to us via the power of B52 bombers and by a foreign country and spies … Achieving these values is only possible through their conscious, stable, and constant struggle.” — Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Intl’ Women’s Day Statement, March 8, 2007. …

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass …

“Hip Hop is struggle. It means a determined attitude towards life. It means rebellion. Hip Hop is the voice of youth and it means above all, the struggle for many things that are poorly done and the detoxification of the mind and body. For me, it means freedom.” — Soandry, Cuban hip hop artist. …

“Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.” — Emma …

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