Category: activist
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
Elie Wiesel
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
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Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
Harriet Tubman
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So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
Jesse Jackson
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And also I didn’t want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn’t want to see my life in that way.
Malala Yousafzai
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Jackson