Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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CARTER, Jimmy
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.” ~Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States “Our Nation’s Past and Future” (15 July 1976) Presidential candidacy acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; transcript online via The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, ‘Acceptance Speech,' www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov Context Extended excerpt [Presidential candidate nomination acceptance speech]: “It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. A
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Politicians whose hopes rest upon the popular ignorance and prejudice, and not upon the popular intelligence, furiously sneer at the idea of equality. It is important, therefore, that every man should understand what human equality is. It is an elemental lesson, but the attack is made at the very foundation and must be met there.” ~George William Curtis, American author & orator “The American Doctrine of Liberty,” Address to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society (17 July 1863) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; in Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis, Vol. I, ed. Charles Eliot Norton, New York: Harper & Bros., 1894, p. 105; online via Stanford University
ADDAMS, Jane
Jane Addams