"Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down."

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Sarah Hanson-Young

#House Quotes #Fleeing Quotes #West Quotes

“Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.”

Source : Edgar Albert Guest, “Figure It Out”
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
“We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1918). “The People: And, Close the Book”
“Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.”

Source : "Nelson Mandela Was Released From Prison After 27 Years. These 10 Political Prisoners Are Still Waiting" By Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2013.
“The sex tape rumor had nothing to do with me, that's why it's so weird. It's like, if you have a sex tape, that's up to you. I want nothing to do with it.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
“Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.”
“I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.”

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