Category: activist
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The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
Malala Yousafzai
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale
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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Marcus Garvey
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You’ll be free or die!
Harriet Tubman
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I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Desmond Tutu
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There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
Sojourner Truth
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
Jesse Jackson
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
Desmond Tutu