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Alice Walker once said, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker Listen, learn, change the world From Timothy Snyder elink.io | See Original Spread the love

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Alice Walker once said, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

-Alice Walker Listen, learn, change the world

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