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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson · Epitaph on his gravestone

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I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson · Remark to an umpire (1954), from Baseball Has Done It (1964)

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Was it worth it? The struggle, the labour, the constant rush of affairs, the sacrifice of so many things that make life easy, or pleasant— for what? A people’s good!

Winston Churchill · Savrola (1899), his only novel

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

The Bible · John 9:4

If our purpose is delayed, if we are confronted by obstacles and inertia, we may still be of good cheer, because in a cause, the righteousness of which will be proclaimed by the march of future events and the judgment of happier ages, we shall have done our duty, we shall have done our best.

Winston Churchill · Royal Albert Hall, London, 14 May 1947

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