Quotes
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Guide to Inner Strength
‘Do what you feel in your heart to. be right – for you’ll be critisised anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.‘― Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Importance of Universal Human Rights at Home
‘Where, after all, do universal human rights begin ? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person, the neighbourhood he lives in, the school or college he attends, the factory, farm,…
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The light of truth
‘The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.‘― Ida B. Wells
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Real Freedom
‘We all are freer when every one of us is free. We all have more opportunity when everyone has opportunity.‘― Hillary Clinton
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Ain’t I a woman ?
‘That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman ? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and…
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Live for Yourself: Insights from Nelson Mandela
‘People can talk, people can do whatever they want to do, but it’s up to you to live for yourself first before others.‘― Nelson Mandela
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The Ethical Imperative of Vaccinating Children
‘Denying children lifesaving vaccinations violates the most fundamental principles of morality, disregards the core tenets of human decency, and breaks the contract of ethical responsibility between generations.’― Dr. Claire Pomeroy
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Equal freedom rights
‘I do not believe that being First Lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Why should my husband’s job or yours prevent us from being ourselves? Being lady like does not require silence.‘― Betty Ford
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The importance of role models
‘I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they…
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