"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."

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Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

Lucy Stone

#Numbers Quotes #Justice Quotes #Sides Quotes

“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”
“Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community. When I got the wild card, it was the cherry on the cake that I could not have imagined. It was much more than I expected for myself.”
“Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.”
“It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.”

Source : Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.35, IHS Press
“But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?”
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
“Knowing they were in the same city again made the missing him flare up inside her. In her stomach. Why were people always going on and on about the heart? Almost everything Levi happened in Cathâ€™s stomach.”
“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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