Category: activist
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There are all kinds of monuments to adults – usually dead and usually white. But we don’t often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
Ruby Bridges
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.
Elie Wiesel
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Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
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Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.
Ruby Bridges
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I don’t know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it’s the right of every human being.
Malala Yousafzai
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I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
Sojourner Truth
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The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.
Ruby Bridges