Category: activist
-
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
-
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman’s going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
Malala Yousafzai
-
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
Desmond Tutu
-
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
-
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel
-
I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress’s back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
Harriet Tubman
-
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
-
There’s no one who has been living for centuries.
Malala Yousafzai
-
I’m not a very public person.
Ruby Bridges
-
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson