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Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)

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لا أريد لهذي القصيدة أن تنتهي

by Mahmoud Darwish

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“Feminist is not a passive label; it means speaking out and standing up for women everywhere, and also for yourself. One woman calling out an injustice is powerful enough; when we raise our voices together, we can shake the status quo to its foundation.”
― Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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“Don't sit around and wait for the perfect opportunity to come along —find something and make it an opportunity.”
― Cecile Richards, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

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“His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“There’s an America that exists inside the borders of the United States, which is a very different entity from the America that projects its force outside the United States”
― Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

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“These are my memories of Norman: red earth and fireflies, singing and demonstrating on the Oval, reading Melville, Poe, Lenin and Mao Tse Tung, reading Ovid and Shakespeare on warm spring mornings with a favorite professor, of conservative political leaning, and accompanying another in the afternoons, singing revolutionary songs.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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