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“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist
As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224
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