Category: activist
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. Anthony
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
Florence Nightingale
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Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
Elie Wiesel
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel