“I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.” ThinkingI CanMatterMomentsBigsPassionBornCommunityRightsFairsGenderDiscriminationCivil RightsActivistOrientationNot FairRacial DiscriminationSmashingDowntrodden Author:Pauley Perrette
“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.” IfsMenI CanMatterStatesBornSinUnitedHalfUnited StatesViolenceCrimeRight NowTruth IsFemaleHatredNo Matter WhatCommittedViolentLoudWoundedSolidarityThreateningMen WomenBattlefieldsSlaughterGrimViolent CrimesBattering Author:Lierre Keith
“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.” PeopleI CanBornEmotionMillionsSkyLandGratitudePassionatePrivilegeDevotionAllowingFellowshipCountyAdequacy Author:Felix Frankfurter
“As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.” LongHas BeensI CanRememberBornMemoriesBoysRaisedMilesLegendsAstronautOhioGood MemoriesBorn And Raised Author:Neil Armstrong
“As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.” IfsGivingPersonsLongArtI CanMatterRealizingBornCompanyOpinionLonelyCommunicateWho I AmBelongingSo Lonely Author:Ai Weiwei
“I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.” I CanUseBornTakenDiseaseSpineWheelchairsReally SadScoliosis Author:Elizabeth Taylor