Famous quotes containing the words told, israel and/or national:
“Say, I wish you fellas coulda seen her face, though, when I walked in and told her, in the strictest confidence, of course, “Honey, I’m goin’ to the moon.”... Well, she looked at me for a second and then said, “What for? They ain’t got nothin’ there that we don’t have more of right here in Texas.””
—Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)
“Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed Aug. 1789, published Sept. 1791)