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However, on the other hand, what you have first is your courage. You may lean against it, it will hold you up, you have that.
VerifiedMaya Angelou
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Commencement Address (excerpts), Maya Angelou to the Wellesley College class of 1982, June 4, 1982
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But I do know that a diamond, one of the most precious elements in this planet, certainly one in many ways the hardest, is the result of extreme pressure, and time.
VerifiedMaya Angelou
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Commencement Address (excerpts), Maya Angelou to the Wellesley College class of 1982, June 4, 1982
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Therein lies our chance toward nobleness—not nobility—but nobleness, the best of a human being is in that ability to overcome.
VerifiedMaya Angelou
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Commencement Address (excerpts), Maya Angelou to the Wellesley College class of 1982, June 4, 1982
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There is that in the human spirit which will not be gunned down even by death.
VerifiedMaya Angelou
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Commencement Address (excerpts), Maya Angelou to the Wellesley College class of 1982, June 4, 1982
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Of all your attributes—your youth, your beauty, your wit, your kindnesses, your money—courage is indeed your greatest achievement. It is the greatest of all your virtues, for without courage you cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
VerifiedMaya Angelou
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Commencement Address (excerpts), Maya Angelou to the Wellesley College class of 1982, June 4, 1982
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
VerifiedJimmy Carter
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2002: Nobel Lecture by Jimmy Carter, December 10, 2002
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