Lance Crouther Quote – Stereotype
“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.” – Lance Crouther
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C.S. Lewis Quote – Make Him Happy
“Nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
Read moreJohn Stuart Mill Quote – Eccentricity In A Society
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained.” – John Stuart Mill
Read moreIsabel Allende Quote – A Thousand People
“For every one torturer, there are a thousand people ready to risk their lives to save another. For every soldier who shoots in a neighborhood, there are a thousand compañeros who help and protect each other.” – Isabel Allende
Read moreJudged On The Basis Of Its Weakest Members
“Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members.”
Read moreRalph Waldo Emerson Quote – Be Yourself
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read moreGeorge Burns Quote – Run The Country
“It’s too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis.” – George Burns
Read moreRalph Ellison Quote – If The World
“If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.” – Ralph Ellison
Read moreQuote – Slaves
“There are more slaves today than at any point in history. 12-27 million forced to work at subsistence pay under threat of violence. The US government estimates 50,000 people work in hidden bondage. 90% are used for sex, indentured domestics or industrial laborers.”
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi Quote – Women Are Not Merely Tolerated
“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.” – Aung San Suu Kyi
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