As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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Men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments. -- Sheryl Sandberg

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It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. And why not? Who knew American democracy more intimately than the Negro people? They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. -- Margot Lee Shetterly

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ― Dr. Seuss

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If we do not choose, we will end up with none. — Dr. Seuss

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A person’s a person, no matter how small. — Dr. Seuss

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Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. ― Dr. Seuss

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Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! ― Dr. Seuss

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ― Dr. Seuss

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