Strength Quotes

Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.

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"My mother taught me to have pride in myself."
Rosa Parks
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"My ancestors' struggles gave me strength to continue."
Rosa Parks
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"I am proud of the stand I took."
Rosa Parks
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"I have learned that resilience is a form of resistance."
Rosa Parks
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"You must never surrender your sense of self-worth."
Rosa Parks
"You're not going to gain equality in this country if you're looking to white people to give it to you."
Malcolm X
"The black man in the ghetto must be made to understand that he is not inferior."
Malcolm X
"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense. I call it intelligence."
Malcolm X
"True strength comes from within, not from external power."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"To be militant in one's beliefs is not a vice; it is a virtue."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"To be called a militant is an honor when militancy serves the cause of human dignity."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"The strength of a movement lies in the conviction of those who carry it forward."
Emmeline Pankhurst
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"To be a woman in this world requires both softness and steel."
Indira Gandhi
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"Strength comes from within, not from without."
Indira Gandhi
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"In diversity lies our greatest strength and richest potential."
Indira Gandhi
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"Stand for something or you will fall for anything."
Rosa Parks
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"I was not tired physically, but rather emotionally tired of giving in."
Rosa Parks
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"Strength comes from knowing you are doing what is right."
Rosa Parks
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"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man."
Susan B. Anthony
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"I have not lived and worked to half a century to call myself a follower of any man."
Susan B. Anthony
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"I say that woman has the same locomotive energy that man has, but society has chained her up."
Susan B. Anthony
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"Woman's true power lies not in beauty but in her mind and her determination."
Susan B. Anthony
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"I have spent my life proving that women are not the weaker sex but the stronger one."
Susan B. Anthony
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"The black man's place is wherever he is big enough to take it."
W.E.B. Du Bois
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"To be a man is hard; to be a black man is harder."
W.E.B. Du Bois
"The spirit cannot be imprisoned, though the body may be."
Emmeline Pankhurst
"The greatest strength of a nation is the character of its people."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Strength is not measured by physical power but by moral conviction."
Jawaharlal Nehru
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"The strength of a nation lies in the unity of its people"
Jomo Kenyatta
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"Strength is not measured by physical power alone"
Jomo Kenyatta