I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

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You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway .― Sojourner Truth

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Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. ― Sojourner Truth

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I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ― Laura Lynch

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We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer

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If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. ― Sojourner Truth

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills

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