by Susan | Aug 13, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
August 13, 1818 Lucy Stone “It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right.” August 13, 1933 Joycelyn Elders “We really need to get over this love affair with...
by Susan | Aug 12, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
August 12, 1774 Robert Southey “Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.” August 12, 1948 Sue Monk Kidd “There’s a gap somehow between...
by Susan | Aug 11, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
August 11, 1921 Alex Haley “Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.” August 11, 1970 Charles M. Blow “America is a living idea. It isn’t only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future....
by Susan | Aug 11, 2022 | birthdays
August 11, 1833 Robert Green Ingersoll “Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” August 11, 1925 Carl T. Rowan “It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half...
by Susan | Aug 10, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
August 10, 1810 Camillo di Cavour “The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.” August 10, 1858 Anna Julia Cooper “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human...
by Susan | Aug 9, 2022 | birthdays, inspiration
August 9, 1593 Izaak Walton “That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.” August 9, 1896 Jean Piaget “The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and...
