Inspiring Words of Action, Block 4 by Jami DeVries https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1 en-us 2022-03-08 15:07:40 UTC 2023-01-25 22:20:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f49b.png Elliot Page: actor, producer, lgbtq+ activist jdevries32 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084190598 “You’re here because you’ve adopted as a core motivation the simple fact that this world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other’s beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences[…] It’s really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it’s not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.”]]> 2022-03-08 15:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084190598 Cynthia Choi: co-founder of the Stop Asian Hate/AAPI movement lealal142 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084592810 “It is devastating to experience a hate crime, but it can be even more devastating to have people witness and not stand up for them.”]]> 2022-03-08 18:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084592810 Greta Thunberg - youth climate activist (Raina) https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593143 "We are striking because we have done our homework, and they have not."]]> 2022-03-08 18:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593143 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: politician, activist, democratic representative of New York's 14th Congressional District (2019-present) maiaw638 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593512 “I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men.” ]]> 2022-03-08 18:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593512 ABRA HAM LINCOLN. president of US during civil war and slavery . (Andrew) https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593653 "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think, and feel." "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." "Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope." awesome!]]> 2022-03-08 18:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593653 Caesar Chavez:Worked to unionize agricultural workers, was the first big step into unionization eliser141 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593836 “All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: To overthrow a farm labor system in this nation which treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings.
Farmworkers are not agricultural implements. They are not beasts of burden–to be used and discarded.”
-Cesar Chaves


]]> 2022-03-08 18:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084593836 Horace Mann: leader of the education reform movement of the 1800s cormacs683 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084594003 "Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man."]]> 2022-03-08 18:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084594003 Elizabeth Warren: Pro-Choice Activist tysonh142 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084594800 “We do not pass laws that take away that freedom from the women who are most vulnerable."]]> 2022-03-08 18:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084594800 Elizabeth Cady Stanton: leader and starter of the women's suffrage movement https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084594807 “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and form motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”]]> 2022-03-08 18:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084594807 Theodore Roosevelt: President, Historian, Writer, Conservationist violetj750 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084595573 “We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation.” 

]]> 2022-03-08 18:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084595573 Peter Singer: Writer, Animal rights activist mollyd666 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084595648 “If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”]]> 2022-03-08 18:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084595648 Marsha P. Johnson- Human rights advocate, leader of the Stonewall Riots addisond442 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084596179 "You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights."]]> 2022-03-08 18:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084596179 Richard Nixon, a president, was known for the watergate scandal. evanl843 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084596301 “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.”]]> 2022-03-08 18:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084596301 (Grace) Susan B. Anthony- fought for women's right to vote https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084596884 “Forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.”]]> 2022-03-08 18:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084596884 Henry David Thoreau:Naturalist, poet, novelist, and philosopher orenm636 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084597342 "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away."]]> 2022-03-08 18:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084597342 Susan Paczkowski: my mom and vice president of HR part of Iron Mountain kaylap141 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084597380 “think with your head and love with your heart because whether or not your heart and head will never agree”

]]> 2022-03-08 18:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084597380 Oprah Winfrey: talk show host, actress, author isabellem672 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084597502 "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future, by merely changing their attitude."


]]> 2022-03-08 18:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084597502 samuelw141 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084598163 Jeffrey Eugenides
 American novelist and short story writer  "In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution"



]]> 2022-03-08 18:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084598163 Kristin Aune and Catherine Redfern - Authors of 'Reclaiming the F Word'. elizaa237 https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084598568 “Feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. … Reclaiming the F Word reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women’s lives today. From cosmetic surgery to celebrity culture and parenting to politics, from rape to religion and sex to singleness, this groundbreaking book reveals the seven vital issues at stake for today’s feminists, and calls a new generation back to action.”]]> 2022-03-08 18:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jdevries32/39a3rarib3vz93r1/wish/2084598568