Protection, Courage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The best protection any woman can have...is courage." — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American abolitionist

Found at Beliefnet. View this online at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=17.

Many Sides, Morally Equal, Sen. Kamala Harris

“'Many sides' suggests that there is no right side or wrong side, that all are morally equal. But I reject that. It's not hard to spot the wrong side here. They're the ones with the torches and the swastikas.” - Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), condemning the violence in Charlottesville, Virgina, and President Donald Trump's “many sides” response.

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what – you just magnified her.” - Susan Bro, speaking at a memorial service for her daughter, Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville

Both quotes are from the Fall 2017 issue of Ms. Magazine, page 6.

Life, Short, Audre Lorde

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde383487.html.

Nation of Sheep, Government of Wolves, Defend Freedom, Edward R. Murrow

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow

Both of these can be found at Goodreads, specifically at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/178884.Edward_R_Murrow.

In Germany, Didn't Speak Up, Martin Niemoller

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." - Martin Niemoller, 1945 (WW1 war hero & U Boat Captain, WW2 pastor who spent 7 years in Nazi prisons).

This is one variant of the quote by Martin Niemoller. Variations include trade unionists, social democrats, and others. We are now observing orders in the U.S. aimed at immigrants entering the U.S.

You can view this and some of the variants at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller, or Google Martin Niemoller for more links.

Glass Mirror, Face, Works of Art, Soul, George Bernard Shaw

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." - George Bernard Shaw

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_384892.

Racism, Violence Against Women, Gloria Steinem

"The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gloriastei690680.html.

We the People, Whole People, Men, Women, Their Rights, Susan B. Anthony

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men." - Susan B. Anthony, speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution, Jan. 8, 1868

First quote ("It was we, the people...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Second quote ("Men, their rights...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b_ii.html.

What is Important, Meaningful Life, Helping Others, Not Harming Them, Dalai Lama

"What is important is not so much how long you live as whether you live a meaningful life. This doesn’t mean accumulating money and fame, but being of service to your fellow human beings. It means helping others if you can, but even if you can’t do that, at least not harming them." - Dalai Lama, on Twitter.

Measure of a Society, Weakest, Most Helpless Citizens, Jimmy Carter

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." - Jimmy Carter

Found on A-Z Quotes at http://www.azquotes.com/quote/557101.

This can also be applied to children currently being separated from their immigrant parents.

Progress, Change, Change Their Minds, George Bernard Shaw

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_386923.

Pleasure, Nothing to Do, Not Doing It, Mary Little

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.” - Mary Little

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.

Labor Movement, Minimum Wage, Middle-Class, Union Label, Barack Obama

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/barack_obama_412572.

Love, Automobile Accident, Tight Girdle, Judith Viorst

“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” - Poet Judith Viorst, looking on the positive side of twentieth-century passion.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 150.

Ache From Smiling, Serious, Miserable, Queen Elizabeth II

“I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.” - Queen Elizabeth II of England, as entitled to the occasional annus horribilus as anyone.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 25.

Monsters, Ghosts, They Win, Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King

Found on GoodReads. Can be viewed here.

My Fellow Americans, Immigrants, Barack Obama

"My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." - Barack Obama

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam677261.html

Length of Life, Depth of Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphwaldo101055.html.

Penalties, Participate in Politics, Governed by Your Inferiors, Plato

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." - Plato

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato.htmlhttps://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato.html.

Mother, Noble Status, Unwed, Welfare, Florynce Kennedy

“Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change why you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?” - Civil rights lawyer Florynce Kennedy, once lionized by the press as “Radicalism's Rudest Mouth” and as a “loud-mouthed middled-aged colored lady” by herself.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 193.

Be Critical, Women Have the Right, Tillie Olsen

“Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.” - Tillie Olsen. After twenty years of transcribing other people's words, the long-suppressed author of Silences finally found her own voice.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 13.

Best for the President, White House, Florence Harding

“I know what's best for the President. I put him in the White House. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.” - Florence Harding. According to Mr. H., the nation's 29th head of state, his auto was the only thing the domineering “Duchess” didn't want to drive.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 11.

Americans, Every Background, Stronger Together, Barack Obama

"I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!" - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam754716.html.

Man, Woman's Natural Enemy, Lawyer, Shana Alexander

“I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.” - Shana Alexander

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 59.

Mind Made Up, Diminishes Fear, Rosa Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." — Rosa Parks, African-American civil rights activist

Found on Beliefnet.com at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=4.

Food Stamp Recipients, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Barack Obama

"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam733938.html

Injustice, Threat to Justice, Martin Luther King

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.

From http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/31-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-to-inspire-greatness-in-you.html

Change, We are the Ones, Barack Obama

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/barack_obama_409128.

Comfort, Afflicted, Afflict, Comfortable, Finley Peter Dunne

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." - Finley Peter Dunne.

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/finley_peter_dunne.html

Woman, Change a Man's Habits, Complain, Barbra Streisand

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” - Singer Barbra Streisand

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 148.