Category: activist
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I remember what it was like at age 6, not really understanding what was going on around me, but having all these grown-up thoughts running through my head about what I was facing, why this was happening.
Ruby Bridges
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I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Susan B. Anthony
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A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
Ruby Bridges
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman
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If you don’t feel apologetic for slavery, if you don’t feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
Jesse Jackson
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
Desmond Tutu
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I do think that some people are born as old souls.
Ruby Bridges
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What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.
Ruby Bridges