18.05.2012
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If a survivor of domestic violence uses a gun to warn an attacker, not kill him, and that survivor now faces a prison term of twenty years, then what purpose does Stand Your Ground serve?
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- Melissa Harris-Perry on the case of Marissa Alexander, a mother of three, who fired a warning shot into her kitchen ceiling trying to keep her abusive husband away. No one was hurt, but she now faces up to twenty years in prison. (via thenationmagazine)
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17.05.2012
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I don’t care if I’m beautiful; I don’t care what I am on the outside. It isn’t about the outside.
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- Donna Summer
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11.05.2012
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You have to learn to get up from the table when LOVE is no longer being served.
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- Nina Simone (via brianbitch)

(Source: brianbees)

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09.05.2012
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You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.
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Our President, ladies and gents. (via pantslessprogressive).

Reminds me of another leader. 

(via cheatsheet)

#BlackGirlsAreFromTheFuture #BlackGirlsChangeTheWorld

(via notesonascandal)

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08.05.2012
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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- Eleanor Roosevelt (via myquotelibrary)
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07.05.2012
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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- Beatrix Potter (via myquotelibrary)
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04.05.2012
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What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.
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- Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

(Source: quotelibrary.info)

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01.05.2012
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But I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy, trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
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Esperanza Spalding (via spit-dirty)

This should be everyone’s morning affirmation.

(via luaunomi)

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18.04.2012
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A diamond is just a piece of charcoal…that handles stress exceptionally well.
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- Anonymous (via myquotelibrary)
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17.04.2012
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Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
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- Amy Poehler (via hermionejg)

(Source: harusuisen)

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