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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.