Category: activist
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I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.
Ruby Bridges
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
Malala Yousafzai
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw
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I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
Sojourner Truth
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Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
Marcus Garvey
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
George Bernard Shaw
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
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From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.
Ruby Bridges