I don't think of myself
as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.
I think of myself as somebody
who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,
and I had to make good.
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I don't think of myself
as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.
I think of myself as somebody
who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,
and I had to make good.
Leadership is solving problems.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is
the day you have stopped leading them.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more,
learn more,
do more and become more,
then you are an excellent leader.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.
We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,
accepting the false pattern set up by
the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for,
and not against, the Union.
As I have not felt, so I have not expressed
any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren.
I have constantly declared,
as I really believed, the only difference between
them and us is the difference of circumstances.