Rose Schneiderman Quotes

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

Rose Schneiderman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: April 6, 1882 - August 11, 1972

Topics

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When I was 13, I read 'Et la paix dans le monde, Docteur?' a physician's account of working with Medecins Sans Fontieres during the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. It was this book that inspired me to work for MSF.

Joanne Liu

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I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

Jermaine Fowler

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You don't need to go to the gym; all you need is a pair of shoes.

Joe Taslim

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I find DIY really therapeutic. I lose myself in it, because you can concentrate on the task and not think about all the other stuff going on in your life.

Andrea McLean

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Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits - forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind.

Michelle Alexander

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I always feel like a goofy little kid.

Julia Stiles

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Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

Jay Parini

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I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

Jonathan Coe

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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Colin Powell

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I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

Conor Oberst

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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Claire Tomalin

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Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.

Austin Clarke

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