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“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.”

Source: Thoughts

“I remember my mother would get upset with me 'cause she said I walked like my dad. But I think it was more like, there's something about you that's not quite ladylike and femme. And then when I got older - once I came out, my mom and grandma were horrified and just kind of like, where did we go wrong?”

Thinking Kind Said Remember Mother Causes Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Upset Grandma Femme Ladylike

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.”

Firsts Children Earth Pain Mother Asks Causes Steps Teach Please Our Children Giver Mother Earth Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Narendra Modi

“Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.”

Giving Heart Lying Mother Order Evil Causes Church Fire Teacher Blood Holy Tongue Drawing Bitter Poison Rising Introducing Boast Restless Doom Zeal Heed Sects Contention

Author:Pope Leo X

“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Should Looks Kind Facts Mother Girl Social Causes Birth Disease Shadow Acknowledge Hypocrisy Enlightened Facts Of Life Birth Control Impunity Unmarried

Book:A Matter of Life and Death

Source: A Matter of Life and Death

“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.”

Mother Causes Powerful Generations Influence Welfare Future Generation

Book:The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated

Source: The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

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Author:Kathryn Lasky

“I came from nothing. My mother was a single mother in the streets. She did everything she could do. Me and my brother experienced a lot on our own and with me knowing that feeling, I didn't want others to have that feeling, so that's why I fight for the streets. I'm making my own lane and staying true to myself, 'cause at the end of the day, you can't ban the truth.”

Want Ends Feelings Mother Fighting Causes My Own Knowing Streets Brother My Brother The End Of The Day Staying Lanes Bans Stay True Single Mother True To Myself

Author:Trae tha Truth

“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.”

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.”

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Author:Keegan-Michael Key