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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Jun 02, 2015

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Speech while receiving the Radcliffe medal at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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Dream big, but focus small on those day-to-day things that will get you to your goal.

May 18, 2015

Robin Roberts, During her unscripted commencement address to the 135th Emerson College Undergraduate class
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Albums – like books and black lives - they still matter.

Feb 08, 2015

Prince, 57th Annual Grammy Awards
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My brother was Muslim, and he was killed by people who pretend to be Muslims. They are terrorists, that's it.

Jan 10, 2015

Malek Merabet, Press Conference
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The movie Selma is a story about the American Civil Rights movement that totally worked and now everything is fine.

Jan 12, 2015

Tina Fey, Presenting at the 2015 Golden Globe awards
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[We remember] Martin Luther King as an idea, Selma as an idea…what can happen with strategy, with discipline, and with love.

Jan 18, 2015

Oprah Winfrey, Speaking to marchers
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When I have children, I'm going to tell them to aspire to be third-string quarterbacks.

Jan 13, 2015

Chantel Jennings, Twitter
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Americans can directly relate to attacks on freedom of speech. They can directly relate to terrorism. And the impact in France is being compared to the impact of 9/11 in the United States. Boko Haram, by contrast, is viewed as a kind of civil war ... and it's all happening a very long way away.

Jan 13, 2015

John Campbell, CNN
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What if Christians were held accountable for their words and acts in the United States? What if every time Pat Robertson uttered another nonsensical comment about gays causing hurricanes the National Council of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals and the U.S. Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops were forced to parade in front of the cameras and issue apologetic statements because a Christian pastor had once again dehumanized children of God, who are still victims of hate crimes in this nation?

Jan 11, 2015

Chuck Currie, The Huffington Post
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If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments -- but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Jan 20, 2015

Barack Obama, 2015 State of the Union Address
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