"I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches."

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Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.244, University of Chicago Press

Ida B. Wells

#Country Quotes #Baby Quotes #Believe Quotes

“It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.”
“To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.”
“The Europeans are starting to show that they're finally serious about the Iranian nuclear program, and they appear to be willing to use sticks against Iran. So I think it is imperative that the United States sit down with the Europeans and say, "Let's make this very clear to the Iranians. Either they can give up their nuclear program and their support for terrorism, in which case we'll given them all kinds of benefits. Otherwise, we'll join in comprehensive, multilateral sanctions that will cripple their very fragile economy."”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.
“I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.”
“But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the clichÃ© and through the truth, it can save.”
“If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.”
“I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal”

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