Category: activist
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I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
Malala Yousafzai
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson
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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
Jesse Jackson
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
Malala Yousafzai
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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.
Jesse Jackson
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I’ve heard ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe’s pen hasn’t begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I’ve seen de real thing, and I don’t want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
Harriet Tubman
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Susan B. Anthony
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don’t go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move… We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
Malala Yousafzai
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard Shaw