Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. – Dr. Seuss

---

Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there. - Fannie Lou Hamer

---

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face. - Fannie Lou Hamer

---

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. - Fannie Lou Hamer

---

I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye. ― Steve Maraboli

---

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed. ― Henry David Thoreau

---

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. —Herman Melville

---

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.- Muhammad Ali

---

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed. in imitation. — Herman Melville

---

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. ― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

---