For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces…

Alice Walker
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. ✨ Alice Walker (2011). In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, p.143, Hachette UK
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