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Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I'm not very good at promotion.”

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born on March 15, 1933. She is renowned for her work on gender equality and is a steadfast advocate for women's rights and gender equality. more

“I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control. They want to be the ones telling people: "This is what we have done in history" but when people begin to say, "No this is what we have done in history" it's a different thing.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Feels Different Done Government Ordinary Uncomfortable Different Things Regimes Ordinary People Awakened

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.”

Thinking Language Wonder Relation Prison Language And Power

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."”

Ifs Way Writing Made Language Prison

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.”

Writing Art Stills Language Audience Practicals Revelations Translations

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.”

Community Break Translations Break Out Confinement

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.”

Writing Problem School Culture Literature Language Issues Raised Discussion Native Phenomenon Classroom Native American Closets Topics Conferences Marginalized American Language

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia. The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.”

Christian Class Middle Europe Originals Greek Middle Class Affected Asia Translations Peasants Hebrew

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history.”

People Knows Reality Jesus Speak Language Talking Spokes Affected Latin Translations Nobody Knows Hebrew

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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