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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963"

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence."

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
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"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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"[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"I'm not a big fan of young kids having Facebook. It's not something they need. It's not necessary."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in."

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Krista Allen Artist
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"Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore."

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