The Resolute Woman

Category: courage

  • We will not be quiet

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    “Let all of the people of the USA determine that we will not be quiet as long as any child dies in the first year of life in the United States,” said James Lawson, Civil Rights leader, at John Lewis’ funeral service. “We will not be quiet as long as the largest poverty group in…

  • Protest

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    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest,” Eli Wiesel once said.

  • Hope

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    “Be hopeful,” John Lewis said. “Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.” Lewis, a civil rights leader, died July 17, 2020.

  • Trouble

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    “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble,” said John Lewis, the civil rights leader, who died July 17, 2020.

  • Do something

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    “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up,” said John Lewis. “You have to do something.” Lewis, a civil rights leader, died July 17, 2020.

  • You can’t stop us

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    “Women weren’t given the vote,” concluded the PBS series on women’s suffrage. “We took it.” As Sojourner Truth said, “You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither.”

  • The vote is power

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    The suffragettes battled more than seven decades to win the right to vote, writes Elaine Weiss in her book The Woman’s Hour. Finally, in 1920, after the Nineteenth Amendment had passed, Carrie Catt, one of the leading suffragettes, wrote to the women voters of the nation: “Women have suffered agony of soul which you never…

  • Three kinds of patriots

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    “There are three kinds of patriots, two bad and one good,” said William Sloane Coffin. “The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover’s quarrel with their country.” Coffin was a minister and long-time peace activist.

  • Hope

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    “Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible,” said William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was a minister and long-time peace activist.

  • Love and truth

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    “The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything by love,” said William Sloane Coffin. Sloane was a minister and long-time peace activist.