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Brief author info: Medgar Evers (1926-1963) American civil rights activist African American born in Mississippi. As successful insurance salesman, was shocked at poverty of rural African Americans he met; quit to become full-time chapter organizer and field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi; investigated murders of various African Americans; first major civil rights leader to be assassinated; his murderer was not convicted until 1994.

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You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

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You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

- Robert Frost

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

- Maya Angelou

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

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Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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