Category: activist
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.
Jesse Jackson
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
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That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
Elie Wiesel
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu
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I want to make America better!
Jesse Jackson
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When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.
Ruby Bridges
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don’t often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, ‘What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?’
Malala Yousafzai