"When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?"

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“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

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"We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel."

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

Military1918–1970

#power

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— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

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— David Riesman

Education1909–2002

#life

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— William Winwood Reade

Literature1838–1875

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