Category: activist
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Throughout my life, my prayers have actively sustained me – held me up, carried me through.
Ruby Bridges
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At the end of the day, we’re defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
Jesse Jackson
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Pakistanis can’t trust. They’ve seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they’re misguided by people in the name of Islam. They’re told: ‘Malala is not a Muslim, she’s not in purdah, she’s working for America.’
Malala Yousafzai
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Desmond Tutu
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I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
Malala Yousafzai
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton