Inspirations - Friday, March 31, 2017

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Mother Teresa

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Inspirations - Thursday, March 30, 2017

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Mary Kay Ash

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Inspirations - Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book.

Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

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Inspirations - Tuesday, March 28, 2017

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Shelley

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Inspirations - Monday, March 27, 2017

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

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Inspirations - Friday, March 24, 2017

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Madeleine Albright

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Inspirations - Thursday, March 23, 2017

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. 

B. R. Ambedkar

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Inspirations - Wednesday, March 22, 2017

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

Leontyne Price

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Inspirations - March 21, 2017

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Inspirations - Monday, March 20, 2017

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. 

Coretta Scott King

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Inspirations - Friday, March 17, 2017

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.

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Inspirations - Thursday, March 16, 2017

The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.

J.K. Rowling
From Harvard Commencement Speech, 2008

British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Inspirations - Wednesday, March 15, 2017

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945

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Inspirations - Tuesday, March 14, 2017

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson
Singer, delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, "goodwill ambassadress" for the U.S. Department of State, Civil Rights activist, singer at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, recipient of numerous awards and honors including; Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.

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Inspirations - Monday, March 13, 2017

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun
American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.

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Inspirations - Friday, March 10, 2017

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.

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Inspirations - Thursday, March 9, 2017

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Bella Abzug
Nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. Wikipedia

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Inspirations - Wednesday, March 8, 2017

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Ann Richards (Dorothy Ann Willis Richards)
American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995.

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Inspirations - Tuesday, March 7, 2017

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Mary McLeod Bethune
American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Inspirations - Monday, March 6, 2017

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl."

Shirley Chisholm
American politician, educator, author.  1st black woman elected to the United States Congress.  1st black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States.  1st woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
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Inspirations - Friday, March 3, 2017

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan
Lawyer, educator, an American politician, and a leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Inspirations - Thursday, March 2, 2017

Recognizing Women's History Month

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. 

Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. Source: Wikipedia