Category: activist
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
Malala Yousafzai
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It’s very satisfying.
Ruby Bridges
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Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
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As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices and step up to the plate. I’m very proud that my parents happened to be people who did. They were not privileged to have a formal education.
Ruby Bridges
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
Malala Yousafzai
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw