"When I liberate others, I liberate myself."

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Fannie Lou Hamer

#Justice Quotes #Social Justice Quotes

“There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind”

Source : Song: The Wild Places, Album: The Wild Places, 1990
“I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt”
“I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.”
“Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.”
“It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players”
“In Boston, a couple of the women were students and they mentioned how Boston has a huge student population, and that's specific to their experiences of street harassment. They feel like the men were a lot more aggressive, particularly when it comes to social outings and things like that.”
“Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.”

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