If you want general prose for a stimulus, try Atonement by Ian McEwan. It's an excellent novel. Or, for speeches, I suggest The perils of indifference by Elie Wiesel. That's powerful stuff.
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner.
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You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength. — Uncle Iroh