Category: activist
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When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that’s under economic assault and a poor community that’s getting bigger, they’re talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there’s a ‘Ferguson’ near you.
Jesse Jackson
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond Tutu
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
Malala Yousafzai
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
Ruby Bridges
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If my mama said not to do something, I didn’t do it.
Ruby Bridges
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Susan B. Anthony
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw