Quotes

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“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Muriel Strode (a similar quote exists by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: Who would prefer Saddam’s torture chambers still be open? Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.”

— Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, NBC News, 16 May 2004

“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love.
Be poor among the poor.
We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”

— Pope Francis (2013 – )

“Society is indeed a contract – becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

— Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them, humanity cannot survive.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“The one who is outside the door has already a good part of their journey behind them.”

— Dutch proverb

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa (St Teresa of Kolkata)

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied, and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one thousand generations back of them … Millions of women, dead and gone are speaking through us today.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage, from National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1889 — a newspaper she founded and edited.
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