Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Maya Angelou quotes

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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All great achievements require time.
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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