The "Burke quote" she uses here is a common but disputed attribution.
UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign (2014)
Context: You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing speaking at the UN. And it’s a really good question. I've been asking myself the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen — and given the chance — I feel it is my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly — if not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope that those words might be helpful.
“I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.”
"afternoon, a story" (1990)
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“Sometimes I say I have two boys at home — I have my young son and I have my husband.”
Interview with Anderson Cooper http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/politics/melania-trump-interview/ (October 17, 2016)
“Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?”
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Letter to his friend Colonel William G. Moore, complaining of Congressional investigations.... (1 May 1867).
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On the backlash he faced after writing a controversial article about sexual harassment in “White People Often Don’t See Damon Young. That’s About to Change.” https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/03/white-people-often-dont-see-damon-young-thats-about-to-change/ in Mother Jones (March/April 2019)
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls's brief, in het Nederlands): Ik wil in den beschouwer mijne aandoeningen overbrengen, - ik wil hem laten boeijen door het tafereel, dat ik niet enkel met mijn bloot oog gezien hebben, maar dat ik diep in mij heb zien bewegen.
Quote of Israëls in his letter in 1891, to an unknown person; as cited in the museum-catalog, Museum Mesdag, 1996, p.236, note 10
Quotes of Jozef Israels, 1871 - 1900