"I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights."

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Inez Milholland

#Women Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Rights Quotes

“History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.”
“There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.”
“It's funny, if you go back and look at all those old movies a lot of times they didn't have the budget for music. Each scene here was written to a different time, whether that be 'Breakfast in America' or just different soundtracks that we had for different parts of the movie. I'm interested to see how it all plays once it's all put together.”
“Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.”

Source : "Energy Healed Me - Over the Phone! A Scientist Explains How". Interview with Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.
“To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.”
“If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one â€” pure, dure, sÃ»re, [Pure, hard, certain] â€” in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.”
“Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!”
“Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.”

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