From Motherland, a memoir by Fern Schumer Chapman
“The plane blazes toward the breaking horizon, though my mother still isn’t convinced she wants to go on this trip. Sitting next to me in [...]
“The plane blazes toward the breaking horizon, though my mother still isn’t convinced she wants to go on this trip. Sitting next to me in [...]
“...Two days later, a slave working beside Harriet in the fields motioned to her. She bent toward him, listening. He said the water boy had [...]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self," Address before the U. S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 20, 1892 Being one of her last public [...]
One of the best-known of the mothers of woman suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the 1848 woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, where she [...]
(Unfortunately, I cannot now find my source for the following, but will gratefully credit it when I do! Perhaps I wrote it using a number [...]
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” Joseph Campbell “If we can recognize [...]
From The World's Religions, by Huston Smith: “Muslims point out that Muhammad incorporated into his charter for Medina the principle of religious toleration that these [...]
"People do not need your opinions or your advice. People do not need to be fixed, corrected, or judged. What people need is to be empowered [...]
“So long as you feel the human contact, the atmosphere of mutual confidence, there is no danger; and even if you have to face the [...]
This list of quotations has been collected over many years by Glenda Taylor. They are all credited appropriately, so feel free to copy and use [...]