Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.
-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

#Sex #Believe #Mean

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.
To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin famous quotes

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