The freedom to express
Cannot be given up.
It comes from God.
Be free and brave.
Only one prison remains:
Our minds.
“I feel sad. I don’t know where my son is. I feel a huge amount of sadness…When he left he said, ‘Mum, I’ll call you in 12 days’, but I never heard from him again. I still have hope.” – Mother of Migrant (Mexico, 2010)
"When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves."
"For shame! For shame! You dare to cry out Liberty, when you hold us in places against our will, driving us from place to place as if we were beasts." — Sarah Winnemucca, author and…
On the day after June 4, 1989, I went to school as usual. It was junior high. All classes were canceled for the day.
"One of the funniest experiences I had when I began working the art world is that people always assumed I worked for Thelma Golden, not that I was Thelma Golden. The kind of dismissal that comes from just people's sense that they don't imagine you are who you are actually has been one of the most powerful and liberating things for me in my work." — Thelma Golden, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
"I had to return home & participate in the work of nation building. I owed it to myself." - Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner & founder of Grameen Bank
"If someone tells you who they are, believe them." — Maya Angelou, poet & author
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." — Martin Luther King, Jr., human rights activist