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“Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.”

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Lynn Johnston

Lynn Johnston, born on May 28, 1947, is a renowned cartoonist known for her humorous and warm-hearted works. Her creations have won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

“I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.”

Years War School Lasts Evil Church Teach Color Labor Died Institutions Slavery Sunday Creeds Exploitation Castes Sunday School

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.”

Knows Ends Goal College Aim Meat

Book:The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

“One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile. There is no villain, no idiot, no saint. There are just men; men who crave ease and power, men who know want and hunger, men who have crawled. They all dream and strive with ecstasy of fear and strain of effort, balked of hope and hate. Yet the rich world is wide enough for all, wants all, needs all. So slight a gesture, a word, might set the strife in order, not with full content, but with growing dawn of fulfillment. Instead roars the crash of hell.”

Source: Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

“At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.”

Natural Changed Hot Now And Then Complaints Gloom Good Nature

Book:The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.”

Believe Country States Political United United States Baby Speech Honestly Traveled Nursing Political Speeches

Book:Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

“Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.”

Birth Weed Eugenics Birth Control Planned Parenthood

Author:Margaret Sanger

“We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.”