#ours

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#speak #yourself

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#got #you #yourself

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#beings #clear #different #human #human beings

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#future #hold #more #must #officials

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. ↗

— June Jordan

#become #begin #love #love yourself #most

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. ↗

— June Jordan

#anyway #as far as #attitude #been #damage

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#expect #them #things #you #yourself

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#because #downs #effort #focus #game

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#competition #day #every #every day #go

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No. ↗