Category: activist
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We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.
Ruby Bridges
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask my secretary or students. I am lucky, because I have people who do it for me.
Elie Wiesel
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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For me, every hour is grace.
Elie Wiesel
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In any society, fanatics who hate don’t hate only me – they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
Elie Wiesel
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
Malala Yousafzai
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw