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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 intellige...more

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Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

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You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my mothe...more

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My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguis...more