"The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites."

-- Merlin Stone

#Rights Quotes #Suppression Quotes #Rite Quotes

“Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.”
“Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”
“I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.”

Source : "Kate portrait: First painting gets mixed reviews". www.bbc.com. January 11, 2013.
“If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.15, The New Press
“I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.”
“We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.”

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