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Carter Heyward: For god is...

Carter Heyward: For god is...

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose...

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Phyllis McGinley: The knowingness of...

Phyllis McGinley: The knowingness of...

The knowingness of little girls
Is hidden underneath their curls.


Source: What...

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Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Anna Kournikova: There are a...

Anna Kournikova: There are a...

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing...

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Wilma Rudolph: When I was...

Wilma Rudolph: When I was...

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose?...

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Amelia Earhart: Courage is the...

Amelia Earhart: Courage is the...

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From...

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Amelia Earhart: There is so...

Amelia Earhart: There is so...

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Source: In...

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Amelia Earhart: There are two...

Amelia Earhart: There are two...

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Source: 20...

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Simone Weil: Who were the...

Simone Weil: Who were the...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead...

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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless,...

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Angelina Grimke: If a law...

Angelina Grimke: If a law...

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course...

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Rosa Parks: I believe that...

Rosa Parks: I believe that...

I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place...

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Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a...

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Peace Pilgrim: I've met a...

Peace Pilgrim: I've met a...

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who...

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Dolores Huerta: Don't be a...

Dolores Huerta: Don't be a...

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for...

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Sonia Johnson: I am a...

Sonia Johnson: I am a...

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry,...

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Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique...

Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique...

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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Althea Gibson: In the field...

Althea Gibson: In the field...

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you...

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