Secret, Success, Give Up, Wilma Mankiller

“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” – Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010) was a Native American activist, community organizer, and social worker. She was the first woman elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

Found at "15 Inspiring Quotes from Indigenous Peoples" at https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/inspiring-quotes-from-indigenous-peoples/.

If It's Wrong, They Do It, We Do It, Noam Chomsky

“If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.” ― Noam Chomsky

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

Freedom of the Press, Democracy, Walter Cronkite

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.” ― Walter Cronkite

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30807.Walter_Cronkite>.

Monsters, Ghosts, Win, Stephen King

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

No One, This Office, Dwight D. Eisenhower

“No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dwight_d_eisenhower_112037.N

Terrorize, Whole Nation, Edward R. Murrow

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow

Can be found at Goodreads or by clicking here.

Being a Bitch, Hold On To, Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.” ― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

Found on GoodReads. Read more here.

Darkest Places, Neutrality, Moral Crisis, Dante Alighieri

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." - Dante Alighieri

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dante_alighieri_109737.

Seeking Truth, Both Sides, Walter Cronkite

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”― Walter Cronkite

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30807.Walter_Cronkite>.

Majority, Reform, Pause, Reflect, Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” ― Mark Twain

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1244.Mark_Twain.

Late for Dinner, Affair, Dead, Jessica Tandy

“When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.” - Jessica Tandy, married to fellow actor Hume Cronyn for nearly on-half century, on the subject of drivng Miss Daisy completely bonkers.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 128.

Delay, Time, Benjamin Franklin

“You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/289513.Benjamin_Franklin.

Hand, Blood, Pain, Standing Bear

“That hand is not the color of yours, but if I prick it, the blood will flow, and I shall feel pain. The blood is of the same color as yours. God made me, and I am a Man.” – Standing Bear (1829-1908) was the leader of a small group of Poncha people

Found at "15 Inspiring Quotes from Indigenous Peoples" at https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/inspiring-quotes-from-indigenous-peoples/.

Love What You Do, Matters, Katharine Graham

“To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?” - Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 165.

Cost, Libraries, Cheap, Ignorant Nation, Walter Cronkite

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” ― Walter Cronkite

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30807.Walter_Cronkite>.

Councils of Government, Guard, Unwarranted Influence, Dwight D. Eisenhower

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Criticism of the President, Right or Wrong, Unpatriotic, Servile, Morally Treasonable, Theodore Roosevelt

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44567.Theodore_Roosevelt.

Truth, Proper, Beautiful, Frederick Douglass

“Truth is proper and beautiful at all times and in all places.” - Frederick Douglass

Found in The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Essential Liberty, Temporary Safety, Benjamin Franklin

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/289513.Benjamin_Franklin.

Show Respect, Grovel to None, Tecumseh

“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” – Tecumseh (1768-1813) was a Shawnee warrior and chief

Found at "15 Inspiring Quotes from Indigenous Peoples" at https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/inspiring-quotes-from-indigenous-peoples/.

Perfection, Content, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/128382.Leo_Tolstoy.

Joanna Come Lately, Bella Abzug

“I'm no Joanna come lately, believe me, I've been here all along – outside.” - Bella Abzug, on being elected to U.S. House of Representatives in 1971; three-term U.S. Congresswoman from New York, known both for the unconventional contents of her cranium and her penchant for placing ladylike chapeaux on it.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 55.

Women, Control, Skin In, Skin Out, Gloria Steinem

“If women can't control our lives from the skin in, we can't control our lives from the skin out.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 36.

Saying to Myself, Live, Say, Paint, Georgia O'Keeffe

“One day I found myself saying to myself, 'I can't live where I want to. I can't even say what I want to!' I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.” - Georgia O'Keeffe, doyenne of the painted desert. Convent-educated O'Keeffe also didn't enjoy hearing about the sexual symbolism of her work, insisting that any putative crotch imagery was nothing but a crock.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 161.

Marriage, Luxury, Necessity, Susan B. Anthony

"Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it." - Susan B. Anthony

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_765253.

Farming, Easy, Pencil, Corn Field, Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dwight_d_eisenhower_112033.

Acting, Minor of Gifts, Shirley Temple, Katharine Hepburn

“Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 31.

Good Friends, Books, Conscience, Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1244.Mark_Twain.

Mankind, Peace, Gift, Elie Wiesel

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel112799.html.

Grow Up, Grow Old, Give Up Something, Ignorance, Maya Angelou

“Most people don't really grow up. What they do is grow old, they grow tiresome even and self-righteous maybe, for it is hard to grow. Because it means they must give up something. Usually their ignorance.” - Maya Angelou, in New York Newsday, Jan. 12, 1993

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 11.