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Frances Harper

"But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children."

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.220, Feminist Press at CUNY

Frances Harper

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“I am I because my little dog knows me.”

Source : Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.593, Northwestern University Press
“I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.”
“Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.”
“Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!”
“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”
“There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.”
“In every work of art, the artist himself is present.”
“In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.”

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