Quote #29

'I have always drawn strength from being close to home.'

More from Arthur Ashe

  1. 'My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.'
  2. 'We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.'
  3. 'My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.'
  4. 'We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as o…
  5. 'My only true regret, however, is that now that I see the world more clearly than ever, as I believe I do, I don't seem to have the time le…
  6. 'I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.'
  7. 'I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a …
  8. 'I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sa…

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