Category: activist
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
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The mission of the Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.
Ruby Bridges
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Florence Nightingale
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In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
George Bernard Shaw
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt