Category: activist
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
Malala Yousafzai
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An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
Jesse Jackson
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I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw
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If we are about what is good today, then we that are good need to come together to fight what’s bad out there.
Ruby Bridges
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No one can say, ‘I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.’ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.
Huey Newton
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
Malala Yousafzai
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Jesse Jackson