Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Memories of President Lincoln. O Captain! my Captain!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
2010s, Nobel Prize winner highlights women’s role in Arab Spring (2011)
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Memories of President Lincoln. O Captain! my Captain!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself—that is my doctrine.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
Robert Green Ingersoll: "...my religion is simply this: <i>First</i>. Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. <i>Second</i>..." in "The Limitations of Toleration" (The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, vol. 7, pp. 217-260, quotation on p. 258).
Misattributed
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
17 min 40 sec
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.
Laura Bush (1946) First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Remarks at UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (June 2, 2006)
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
As for “Time heals all wounds” and “Whenever God closes a door, He opens a window”—they, too, make me gloat unconscionably.
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 1 (p. 13; spoken by the Devil)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Ogni giorno, ciò che mi stimola ad andare oltre... è raggiungere quello che da sempre, per tutti, è considerato impossibile.
Source: prevale.net