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Pierce, Franklin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1853, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.

Pete Seeger

We Shall Overcome

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Simmons, Lucille. "We Will Overcome." People's Songs Bulletin, 1947. Originally sung by Lucille Simmons and tobacco workers during a cigar workers strike. 1945, Charleston, SC, USA.

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Adams, John. Diary entry. 17 Dec. 1773.

Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

1996 Wellesley commencement address

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Ephron, Nora. Commencement speech. Commencement ceremony. 25 May 1996, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.

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Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed

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Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970, introduction.

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Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

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Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. The Macmillan Company, 1902, introduction.

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Baldwin, James. Quoted in "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." Interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Village Voice, 26 June 1984.

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Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Interviews. Melville House, 2014.

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Didion, Joan. "In the Islands." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 57.

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 6.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 6.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Sontag, Susan. "The Heroism of Vision." On Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in The New York Times. 8 Jan. 2001.

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Taylor, Zachary. "Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1849, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.