"We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it."

-- Mary Robinson

#Letting Go Quotes #Government Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!”
“The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice.”
“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”
“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”
“Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.”
“Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.”
“Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.”
“Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.”

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