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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

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There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

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People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible.

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Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

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Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

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The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

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I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

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My mom used to say, You cannot experience what you cannot imagine... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

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I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.

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I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

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They were like two trees with buried roots so tangled that they inevitably leaned on each other, and also strangled each other a bit.

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Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

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You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

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I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

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I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

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I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.

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As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

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I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

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A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, Yes, someone like me can do this.

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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

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No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

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