Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Equality, Justice Sonia Stotmayor

“When the civil rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected those claims.” - Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting to the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, which held that business owners have the right under the First Amendment to refuse service to LGVTQ+ people

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2023, page 6.

Despair, Overwhelmed, Fight, Kamala Harris

“We must not despair. We must not be overwhelmed or throw up our hands. It is time to roll up our sleeves and fight for who we are.” - Sen.-Elect Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), now former V.P.

From Ms. Magazine special election issue, Fall, 2016 page 11.

Note: V.P. Kamal Harris was the Senator-Elect when the above quote was published in Ms. Magazine.

World Right for Love, Tillie Olsen, Silences

“It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.” ― Tillie Olsen, Silences

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/89863.Tillie_Olsen.

Associate, Learn, Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23920.Dwight_D_Eisenhower.

Changing the World, Changing Himself, Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy

Found on Goodreads at,a href=https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/128382.Leo_Tolstoy>https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/128382.Leo_Tolstoy.

People with Power, Violence, Noam Chomsky

“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.” ― Noam Chomsky

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2476.Noam_Chomsky.

Life is to be Lived, Katharine Hepburn

“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 22.