"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - Elie Wiesel
This can be found at http://www.wisdomquotes.com/authors/elie-wiesel/.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
No Greater Gift, Impact on the World, Better, Gloria Steinem
"There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better." - Gloria Steinem
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690718.
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690718.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Oligarchy, Democracy, American Political System, Jimmy Carter
"We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life." - Jimmy Carter
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jimmy_carter_753683.
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jimmy_carter_753683.
Monday, April 23, 2018
Fascinated, Extraordinary, Ordinary, Magdalen Nabb
“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.” - Magdalen Nabb
Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.
Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Strength, Courage, Confidence, Eleanor Roosevelt
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_121157.
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_121157.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Nothing More Fundamental, Government, Children, Gloria Steinem
"There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children." - Gloria Steinem
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690699.
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690699.
Friday, April 20, 2018
Girls, Never Doubt, Valuable and Powerful, Your Own Dreams, Hillary Rodham Clinton
“To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton in her moving concession speech
Found in Ms Magazine: Winter 2016, page 6.
Found in Ms Magazine: Winter 2016, page 6.
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