Saturday, October 31, 2020

Much is Given, Much is Expected, Mary Maxwell Gates

“From those whom much is given, much is expected.” - Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill Gates' mother, on board of regents for University of Washington, first female president of King's County United Way, first woman to chair national United Way executive committee

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 41.

Friday, October 30, 2020

Four Essential Human Freedoms, Speech and Expression, Worship God, Want, Fear, Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 72.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Educate Men to Goodness, One Another, Love of the Truth, Daniel Berrigan

"But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of the truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?" — Daniel Berrigan, quoted on the cover of TIME (Jan. 25, 1971)

In "The Nation: The Berrigans: Conspiracy and Conscience". Time. 97 (4): 18. January 25, 1971.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Peaceful Revolution, John F. Kennedy

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 84.

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Too Angry, Keep Your Mouth Shut, Nothing Will Ever Change, Michelle Obama

"Don't ever, ever let anyone tell you that you're too angry, or that you 'should keep your mourth shut.' There will always sbe those who want to keep you silent, to have yoube seen but not heard, or maybe they don't even want to see you at all. But those people don't know your story, and if you listen to them, then nothing will ever change." - Former First Lady Michelle Obama, speaking to the graduating class of 2020

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020, page 6.

Friday, October 23, 2020

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Friday, October 16, 2020

Dissents, Future Age, Dominant View, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On dissent and justice: "Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Monday, October 12, 2020

Friday, October 9, 2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020

No Matter the Fight, Ladylike, Mary "Mother" Jones

"No matter the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies." - Militant labor organizer Mary "Mother" Jones, one mean maternal unit to mess with.

(Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, compiled by Autumn Stephens.)

Monday, October 5, 2020

Central to a Woman's Life, Dignity, Decision That She Must Make, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on support for abortion rights

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Rage, Writers, Water, Fish, Nikki Giovanni

"Rage is to writers what water is to fish. A laid-back writer is like an orgasmic prostitute - an anomaly." - Nikki Giovanni, impassioned poet. (Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, compiled by Autumn Stephens.)

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Women Couldn't Do, Blacks Couldn't Do, Defeat, Challenge, Marian Wright Edelman

“There were so many things they said women couldn't do and blacks couldn't do. Every defeat to me was a challenge.” - Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of Children's Defense Fund

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 13.