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But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.
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Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen.
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The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
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My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.
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Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
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We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.
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Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.
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Shirking responsibility has never been a fault with which colored women might be truthfully charged.
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With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.
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We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.
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who did not delay for any formal vote to empower him to do so, but followed him because he was born to command
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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
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We shall enter into any war with a full consciousness of the awful consequences that it always entails, whether successful or not, and we, of course, shall make every effort consistent with national honor and the highest national interest to avoid a resort to arms.
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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency.
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It is never wrong to do the right thing.
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I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emersonmisattributed·Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers, by Muriel Strode, in The Open Court, Volume XVII, Number 567·August 1903
Wrongly attributed
Universally attributed to Emerson, and it is in none of his essays, journals or letters. It is Muriel Strode, an American writer almost nobody has heard of, in the August 1903 issue of The Open Court. The rewriting is the interesting part: Strode wrote a vow in the first person about herself, and the version that circulates has been turned into an instruction issued to somebody else. Do not go where the path may lead is not what she said. I will not follow is.