“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
""There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.""
- W.E.B. DuBois
Empowerment
"Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities."
- W.E.B. DuBois
Vision
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity