Category: activist
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You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It’s still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
Elie Wiesel
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Elie Wiesel
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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
Ruby Bridges
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A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That’s why they are so powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
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All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.
Ruby Bridges
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw