I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

- Clarence Darrow

Awareness

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

- Clarence Darrow

Belief

"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free."

- Clarence Darrow

Belief

"I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one."

- Clarence Darrow

Compassion

"Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of those is work."

- Clarence Darrow

Happiness

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage