"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."

-- Barbara Jordan

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“We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.”
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“I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.”
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”
“Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.”
“Who would bring light must endure burning.”
“I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.”
“When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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