Shirley Chisholm That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free. – Shirley Chisholm Black Quotes Congressman Quotes Figure Quotes National Quotes Person Quotes Proves Quotes Society Quotes Woman Quotes Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws – to perpetuate injustice through inaction. It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.
Rose Ayling-Ellis You can’t write about deaf people without a deaf person’s input. Nothing about us, without us. A consultant should be involved at all stages when working with deaf people. – Rose Ayling-Ellis
John Perry Barlow It didn’t matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we’d found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. – John Perry Barlow
Fiona Hill Calling Trump ‘Putin’s puppet’ is a sign of the weakness of the American political system. It appears so weak and fragile that outsiders can actually meddle about in it. – Fiona Hill
Marie Osmond So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it’s not the mother’s fault. This is the thing: they shouldn’t feel ashamed. They didn’t cause this. It is not something they did to themselves. – Marie Osmond
Melanie FionaRomantic I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard. – Melanie Fiona
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