Category: activist
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.
Florence Nightingale
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God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Desmond Tutu
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I don’t know much about politics, and I don’t want to know. That’s why I rarely involve myself in politics.
Elie Wiesel
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When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
Elie Wiesel
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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton
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Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.
Ruby Bridges