"Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Change Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I am who I am, but I am not a bully,”

Source : "New Jersey Gov. Christie Apologizes for Bridge Scandal". www.voanews.com. January 9, 2014.
“I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.”
“We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”

Source : "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.
“Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2009). “Night Huntress: An Otherworld Novel”, p.94, Penguin
“Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.”
“I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.”
“We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.”
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

Source : Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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