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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any… — Arthur Conan Doyle
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with… — Marilyn vos Savant
I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come. — Cat Stevens
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around… — Maya Angelou
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have… — William Wells Brown
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Fritjof Capra
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler… — Aime Cesaire
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and… — Lydia M. Child
It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their… — Isak Dinesen
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling… — E. M. Forster
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step… — Margaret Mead
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown… — Clarence Page
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved,… — Leontyne Price
I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter… — James T. Rapier
The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been… — Helen Reddy
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked… — Adrienne Rich
He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger. — Saadi

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