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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Forgiveness
Before
Another
Understand
Forgive
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Politics
History
Mother
First
Patient
Baby
Other
Everybody
Cries
Kicks
Indefinitely
Unpleasant
Impatient
Fed
Attended
Feed
Perfectly
Know
Until
Well
Makes
Ready
Waits
Which
Whole
Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Man
Black
Every
Stripe
Has-Been
Red
Shed
Been
Blood
Flag
Represents
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer
You
Man
Remember
Will
White
Back
Ourselves
Gives
Take
He
Remember When
Ready
Gets
Just
Anything
Right
Right Back
The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
Florence Nightingale
Important
Lesson
Symptoms
Nurses
Neglect
Evidence
Kind
Indicate
Given
Observe
Importance
Most
Practical
None
How
Reverse
Improvement
The Most Important
Which
Them
Teach
We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.
Fred Hampton
Class
Struggle
Revolution
Else
Say
Class Struggle
About
Marx
Knew
Primarily
Practiced
Said
Always
Priority
Anybody
Anybody Else
Anything
Lenin
Who
Mao
Ever
The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
Fred Hampton
Best
You
Fight
Water
Care
Black
Fire
Party
Fighting
Think
Panther
Says
Said
Up
dont Care
Stood
Anybody
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer
Woman
Walk
Will
Shoes
Herself
Run
Could
Never
Takes
Know
She
Got
How
How Far
Go
Off
Might
Far
Lets
Ever
Fast
Her
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'
Gloria Steinem
Woman
Age
Youth
Women
Conservative
Wait
Power
Lose
Young
Radical
Older
Say
More
Tend
Because
Feminist
Get
Just
Young Woman
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
Gloria Steinem
Beauty
Boring
Perfect
Irregular
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton
Death
Fear
Without
Itself
Meaning
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. Wells
Me
Somebody
Must
Seems
More
Fallen
Sinned
Sinning
Than
Against
Race
Show
The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
Ingrid Newkirk
Wonderful
Be Kind
Incredibly
Kind
Easy
Wonderful Thing
Thing
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
Myself
Immorality
Tendency
Exception
Make
Essence
I want to help transgender individuals who might be struggling realize that they have to love themselves and stay true to who they are because if they keep moving forward, and keep a positive attitude, then things will get better.
Jazz Jennings
Positive
Love
Attitude
Moving Forward
Positive Attitude
Better
Keep Moving Forward
Will
Transgender
Keep Moving
Stay
Stay True
Struggling
True
Individuals
Because
Get
Want
Moving
To Love
Might
Realize
Themselves
Then
Help
Who
Forward
Keep
Things
Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.
Jazz Jennings
Rights
Haters
Fighting
Our
Share
Motivate
Continue
Story
Us
Ammunition
Why
A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti
Man
Selfish
Thief
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti
Obligation
World
Gift
Our
Ourselves
Talent
Making
Serve
Brings
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Julian Assange
Good
Intelligence
Law
Behavior
Secret
Rule
Rule Of Law
Because
Intelligence Agencies
Often
Agencies
Good Behavior
Keep
Things
Violate
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
Julian Assange
War
Ignorance
Memory
Generation
People
Creation
Living
Case
My Generation
Through
Clearest
Also
Issue
West
Iraq
Iraq War
Biggest
Manipulation
Media
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
Louis Farrakhan
Leadership
Challenge
Respected
Characteristics
Moral
Both
Developing
Overall
Make
Another
Us
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
Louis Farrakhan
Sad
Day
Country
Revolution
Earnest
State
Anarchy
One Day
Solutions
Potentially
Toward
Joyous
Make
Real
America
Closer
Move
Moves
Then
Each
Each Day
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn
You
People
Speak
Fear
Mind
Before
Shakes
Voice
Stand
Your
Even
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.
Malala Yousafzai
Life
Education
Day
Every Day
World
Gift
School
Diamond
Every
Other
Starving
Some
Students
Part
Like
Parts
Normal
Normal Life
Precious
Precious Gift
Going
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
Malala Yousafzai
God
Myself
Great
Me
People
Sky
Made
Giving
Extra
Once
Responsibilities
High
One Or Two
Given
Could
Had
He
Instead
Reach
Also
Tall
Height
Asked
Measure
Inches
Two
I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
Malala Yousafzai
Life
Freedom
My Life
Live
Think
Way
Like
Right
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