WIST Quotations

Gorman, Amanda -- “The Hill We Climb” (2021)

Dave — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:34:19 +0000

When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it,
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it,
If only we’re brave enough to be it.

Amanda Gorman (b. 1998) American poet and activist
“The Hill We Climb” (2021)
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Read at the Presidential Inauguration (20 Jan 2021).

Camus, Albert -- Speech, Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948)

Dave — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:45:00 +0000

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear, and that they should voice their condemnation in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man. […] Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

Albert Camus (1913–1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright
Speech, Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948)

Speaking on the Holocaust. In Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death [tr. O'Brien (1961)]

Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Column (1944-11-08), “My Day”

Dave — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:54:28 +0000

In political life I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1944-11-08), “My Day”
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