Category: activist
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Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
Elie Wiesel
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
Jesse Jackson
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Florence Nightingale
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
Desmond Tutu
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If kids have the oportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want their friends to be. All children should have that choice. We, as adults, shouldn’t make those choices for children. That’s how racism starts.
Ruby Bridges
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in ‘Night.’ I questioned God’s silence. So I questioned. I don’t have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
Elie Wiesel
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn’t born in me.
Jesse Jackson