#sam

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#became #charge #distinction #education #half

What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#awareness #citizens #connected #days #encourage

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#everyone #i #i think #important #irish

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.' ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#building #city #down #god #i

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#because #blues #cooke #gospel #i

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#imperfect #kassam #love #perfection #philosophy

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bed #english #excited #farm #i

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#battle #be patient #blessed #brethren #continue

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. ↗

— Robert Orben

#democracy #first #first time #history #inflation

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#around #because #built #case #elite