“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”~Ida B. Wells American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and leader during the early civil rights movement, Ida B. Wells was born on this day in 1862.
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Random Quote for July 15, 2025
“Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.”~Emmeline Pankhurst British political activist Emmeline Pankhurst was born on this day in 1858.
Random Quote for July 14, 2025
“No system in the world is so well-designed that it can’t grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.”~Esther Dyson Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator, and philanthropist Esther Dyson was born on this day in 1951,
Random Quote for July 12, 2025
“The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.”~Mark Hatfield American politician and educator Mark Hatfield was born on this day in 1922.
Random Quote for July 11, 2025
“The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.”~Ed Markey American politician Ed Markey was born on this day in 1946.
Random Quote for July 10, 2025
“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.”~David Brinkley American television newscaster David Brinkley was born on this day in 1920.
Random Quote for July 09, 2025
“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”~Samuel Eliot Morison … Continue reading Random Quote for July 09, 2025
Random Quote for July 08, 2025
“All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.”~Jean de La Fontaine French fabulist and poet Jean de La Fontaine was born on this day in 1621.
Random Quote for July 07, 2025
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”~Robert A. Heinlein (”Friday”, 1982) American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer Robert … Continue reading Random Quote for July 07, 2025
Random Quote for July 05, 2025
“Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.”~James Mirrlees British economist James Mirrlees was born on this day in 1936.
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