Saturday, July 25, 2009
Empower the women!
I dunno where all this pro-women, feminist stuff came from, but today I just felt like supporting all the stuff like that. So, here's a wordle of pro-women quotes.
Music quotes
Here are a bunch of music quotes in wordle. Including one of my own invention; 
"Music is only for those who listen."
Another quote site
If you can't tell, I like quotes. Here's ANOTHER site with good quotes. Lots of adds, though. :-(
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I have no idea what to write in my book. So, to all the people following my blog, I could use some help. If you have any ideas on scenes and you check my blog sometime soon, could you please give me some ideas? My book is about a bunch of kids. A 12-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy, a 16-year-old boy, and a 19-year-old boy. Three of the boys are brothers (not the 14-year-old).
Book teazer
After the flu was really and truly done I sat up and the first thing I did was to say, “Traitors.” I stared directly at James, Thomas, and…Nathaniel.
That was a line from my book. Bet you can't figure out what's going on with that, can you?
Going to the moon
Just a week ago the 40th anniversary of going to the moon happened. So I took Kennedy's speech, where he asked NASA to go to the moon, and put it in wordle. So, here it is.
Here's the site I got the speech off: www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm
Women's rights
This is Susan B. Anthony's speech on women's rights:
In the 1800s, women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. This speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay.
Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.
The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.
For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.
To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.
Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office.
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.
Susan B. Anthony - 1873
Quotes
Here are some very nice quotes from J. K. Rowling: "I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself." Here's my other favorite: "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth." If you want to read more, here's a link to where I got them: www.quotationspage.com/quotes/J._K._Rowling
Here's a wonderful Jane Austen quote from Pride and Prejudice, said by Mary Bennet: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." Here's another one: "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." If you want more, here's a link: www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Austen
This is a good Oscar Wilde quote: "Be yourself; everyone else is taken." I also like this one; "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." If you want to read some more here's a link: www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde
And now, so I don't take quotes from over half the people on the site here's a link to the whole site; www.quotationspage.com/quotes
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