Category: activist
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that’s not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
Jesse Jackson
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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey
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I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt
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That’s really what my work is all about – bringing kids together.
Ruby Bridges
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt