"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless expense, For we'll all go free-suffrage a hundred years hence."

"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangle or ride on the fence, These things will be altered a hundred years hence."

"Education is a powerful tool to guide them, to guide our future to a better path, to make one person productive, beneficial to one society, and have a purpose in life."

"We may be poor but we are not incompetent. We lack resources but we are not useless."

"One is never too young to give back to society."

"One is never to think of ways to help others. One is never too strong to do things on his own. One is never too young to give back to society. One is never too ordinary to be a hero. And that one is you."

"We can be heroes to the next person in need, a lifesaver."

"Everyone can make a difference, young and old through their own and simple ways."

"You are examples of people who have brilliant mind, hearts and souls who can reach the unreach, love the unlove, rebuild the ruins and save the day."

"One is never too ordinary to be a hero."

"One is never too strong to do things on his own."

"Serve others, serve well, serve the joy of serving."

"To children with all races, do embrace learning and love it for it will embrace and love you back and shall able you to change your world."

"People are in search for Heroes. People who will bring hope to the hopeless and inspiration to the oppressed."

"I have served the people well. I gave my all and I am proud to say that my integrity remains intact and I have never wanted to lose sight of the people I have sworn to serve with full fidelity and courage."

"[Urban planning is] an ideal profession for a woman because it builds on her innate capacity for providing an orderly and aesthetic environment for herself, her family and the community in which she lives."

"Exercise is the anchor of my life. It keeps me focused and centered, which is particularly important when you lead a life that’s constantly on the move"

"Every morning, as I enter the day, I like to outline the three goals I want to achieve"

"Regardless of where I am or what I’m doing, I always have a daily call with my kids"

"I work out with my husband six times a week"

"Hispanics have never been stronger. However, we’ve also never faced so many political pressures. This community needs to be united and it needs to unite now"

"First, address and connect with the audience, then tell a personal story about yourself, deliver your message with one to three points you want to make, then close it with something inspirational"

"At the World Economic Forum in Davos, we saw the president of Microsoft wearing his"

"This is our time. There is no better time"

"Every time I went to a restaurant and there was a waiter who was clearly Latino, and I spoke to him in Spanish, he would try to deny his identity, to suppress it"

"And then I started learning that, in America, they invented a word that means that 26 different countries all of a sudden are one group, and that I was going to belong to that group, and that that group was not terribly well perceived"

"For a group that is so powerful to think of themselves as so weak, for a group that is so big to be seen so small? It’s a big thing"

"I want to use my voice to remind us that we are all part of the same human family"

"If you’re Jorge, you pretend to be George, and you leave yourself at home, and you come with someone you don’t know"

"We produce these bags and give them to the speakers at our summit with the message: ‘Behind every mask, there’s a human"

"The work that I’m doing is very much inviting companies, decisionmakers, and Latinos everywhere to take action,” she says, “so that we can be seen as what we are: positive contributors to the country"

"Being able to speak up for the issues that matter is a privilege"

"If every woman in Philadelphia had a Pap test once a year no woman need die of uterine cancer."

"Follow your dream. You got two feet and a head? Keep going."

"My professional career in medicine has been inspired mainly by the many badly needed services to youth in the Black community."

"It was what I wanted to do and I didn’t see why I couldn’t do it."

"We must teach these people the laws of health; we must preach this new gospel, That gospel, was that the respectability of a household ought to be measured by the condition of the cellar."

"A problem concerning a child is dealt with in the context of its family, never just on its own."

"In many ways Kenya is a model example of community social welfare. It's a community keyed to the extended family, in which each generation helps the other."

"They are walking in the flower garden, and what are they singing? Something rather merry and mocking; the veering breeze blows up a few words now and then to the ears of a lady behind green bathroom blinds. (beginning of "O Stay and Hear")"

""When are you going to put me into a story, Philip?" (beginning of "It Falls Into Place")"

"Now that she was sitting in Central Park, wrapped in furs, looking very beautiful, as always...now that she watched with reminiscent eyes the antics of her baby girl in oozing March snow...now that her car was due to call for them in half-an-hour...she brooded, almost with complacence, on the memory of that other park. (beginning of "Parks")"

"Now why, you may ask, does this Anglo-Saxon looking little woman represent three and three-quarter million island peoples who are mainly coloured persons of African and mixed descent. I will tell you. My friends, I was elected by a large majority of coloured people this year, and I represent them in the West Indian House of Representatives, our Parliament. I regard, therefore, that election and my ministerial appointment as a triumph of tolerance over skin-deep differences, and even over historical prejudices. May I add that it is a triumph of tolerance over creed as well as race."

"Journalism is a different experience to writing for me. It's not romantic enough for me."

"They may strip us Federal Ministers and Members of honourable dues and even tie me to the stake in rags, but no one can deprive me of the signal and irrevocable honour of having been the first woman Minister in the Federal Government of the West Indies. Let the rains fall on dry lands and holy feathers drop from the sky — the traces of our passage will not be obliterated."

"Her poetry is full-blown, lush, often touched with a melancholy for home."

"My poems are the best part of me."

"Her delicate touch, discerning eye and a heart wise to the human condition animate these stories. Falls Into Place will confirm Allfrey's major contribution to the development of West Indian literature..."