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    Audre Lorde
    “My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”
    ― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
    tags: cancer, differences, feminism, illness, silence, speaking-out, truth, women, words
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    Audre Lorde
    “Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: action, anger, black-feminism, feminism, guilt, oppression
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    Hélène Cixous
    “Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
    ― Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
    tags: feminism, self-expression, writing
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism, wisdom, women
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    Noam Chomsky
    “For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
    tags: crime, double-standards, hypocrisy, politics, power, war-crimes
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: body, doctrine, ethics, law, morality, principles, religion, soul, steadfastness, temptation
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights
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    Aristotle
    “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: crime, poverty, revolution, society
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: fear, hate, pain
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    Confucius
    “When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
    ― Confucius
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair." (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)”
    ― Alexander Hamilton
    tags: humor
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    Confucius
    “He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: wisdom
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    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Confucius
    “The funniest people are the saddest ones”
    ― Confucius
    tags: funny, people, sad
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans
    and is not intent upon arriving.
    A good artist lets his intuition
    lead him wherever it wants.
    A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
    and keeps his mind open to what is.

    Thus the Master is available to all people
    and doesn't reject anyone.
    He is ready to use all situations
    and doesn't waste anything.
    This is called embodying the light.

    What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
    What is a bad man but a good man's job?
    If you don't understand this, you will get lost,
    however intelligent you are.
    It is the great secret.”
    ― Laozi, Tao Te Ching
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    Confucius
    “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
    ― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects
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    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: foolishness, other-people
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    Confucius
    “Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: personal-responsibility, self-assessment, self-determination
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    Confucius
    “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: individuality, inspiration, validation
    864 likes

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  • #23
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: parenting, role-models
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    Lao Tzu
    “How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men”
    ― Laozi
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    Lao Tzu
    “Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.”
    ― Laozi
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  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “To lead the people, walk behind them.”
    ― Laozi
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  • #27
    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
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    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: teaching, understanding
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  • #30
    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: solitude
    1083 likes



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