#heir

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#always #carried #dramatic #fact #fight

What I Will by Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is lifeless. I know intimately that skin you are hitting. It was alive once hunted stolen stretched. I will not dance to your drummed up war. I will not pop spin break for you. I will not hate for you or even hate you. I will not kill for you. Especially I will not die for you. I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide. I will not side with you nor dance to bombs because everyone else is dancing. Everyone can be wrong. Life is a right not collateral or casual. I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing. Our humming will be drumming. I will not be played. I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat. I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum ain’t louder than this breath. ↗

— Suheir Hammad

#death

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#get #hold #must #their #you

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#glorifying #horrible #how #like #news

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#except #own #stand #their #weapons

I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#everything #glamorous #hand #her #hours

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#dead #innocent #living #obligations #our

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#been #being #born #children #considered

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#besides #characterized #heuristic #negative #positive

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#choose #citizens #differently #disapproval #hearts