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Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: italian
Birth: June 22, 1805 - March 10, 1872

Topics

Obstacles Strong Rise Nation Rights

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

Tom Hodgkinson

Security Airport Humiliation Checks

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

Rupert Murdoch

People Rich Begin System Only

We have been under military rule since 1952, when a group of army officers overthrew Egypt's monarchy and ended Britain's occupation of the country. But that only replaced an external occupation with an internal one, in which favored sons of the armed forces replaced their uniforms with suits, a move meant to create a semblance of civilian rule.

Mona Eltahawy

Suits Army Country Create Group

Left Eye is a a rare gem.

Missy Elliott

Eye Rare Gem Left

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Joyce Banda

Women Myself School Key Country Go

I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country, but why not Chavez?

Diego Luna

Country Movies Why Civil Rights

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

Drew Barrymore

Life People Book Think My Life You

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

August Strindberg

Family Father Enemy Position Dad

We are one family, and the connection between all Jews, all over the world, is very important to the State of Israel.

Reuven Rivlin

Family World Connection Important

Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

Mark Duplass

Time Day Year Nobody Working Whole

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

Martha Beck

Death Aging Feel Said Way Always

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.

Kim Edwards

Family Father Home Walk Childhood