Inspirational Quotes About Common Ground
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“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
Josephine Baker (1906-1975);
Performer
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“...the day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in the councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union, between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906);
Women's Rights Activist, Writer
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 10/12/10
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies. ”
Mark Twain (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 05/13/11
“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.”
George Leonard (1923-2010);
American Writer
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This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/29/11
“It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned. ”
Helena Norberg-Hodge -
Founder Of The International Society For Ecology And Culture
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