"Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women â€¦ that will be a society that works for everyone."

-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Numbers Quotes #Significant Quotes

“You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.”

Source : Richard N. Haass (1999). “The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization”, p.117, Brookings Institution Press
“The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.”
“I have used cannabis all over the world.”

Source : "Rick Steves, Famed Travel Writer and Pot Advocate: 20 Questions". interview with Michael Goldstein, www.laweekly.com. April 12, 2012.
“I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.”

Source : "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.
“We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply because he was gay. In the last year alone, we've seen the shootings of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish children simply because of who they were. This is not the American way. We must draw the line. Without delay, we must pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And we should reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.”
“I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman”

Source : "Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement". Book by Feargal Cochrane, 1997.
“Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!”

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