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Maya Angelou
Susan B. Anthony

Hannah Arendt
Bettina von Arnim

Maya Angelou
b. 4-4-1928; Missouri

"Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes, into
Your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning."
On the Pulse of Morning

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Susan B. Anthony, American Civil Rights Leader, 1860, Photographic Print

Susan Brownell Anthony
b. 2-15-1820; Adams, MA
d. 3-13-1906; Rochester, NY

Abolitionist, educator, labor activist, temperance worker and suffragist Susan B. Anthony played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement. She

Hannah Arendt
b. 10-14-1906; Hanover, Germany
d. 12-4-1975; New York

Hannah Arendt, who described herself as a political theorist and not a philosopher, dealt with the nature of power, and the subjects of politics, authority, and totalitarianism. In addition to publishing numerous books, she reported on the post WWII Eichmann trial, and taught at the university level.

Hannah Arendt quotes ~
• “Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”
• “Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”
• “Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
• “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
• “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

Bettina von Arnim
b. 4-4-1785; Frankfurt, Germany
d. 1-20-1859; Berlin

Though best known for her friendships with famous men such as Goethe (with whom she corresponded), Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, Bettina von Arnim was a writer, musician, and artist exemplifing the Romantic era. It is possible she was the “Immortal Beloved” of Beethoven.

She collaborated with her future husband Achim von Arnim, and brother Clemens Brentano, on a collection of folk songs that were later put to music by Gustav Mahler.

Von Arnim was also a social activist who published several dissident works advocating progressive ideals. A community founded by progressive immigrants from Germany founded the short lived community of Bettina, Texas.

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Karen Armstrong
b. 11-14-1944; Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England

Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God, is a former Catholic nun.

Karen Armstrong quotes ~
• “Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”
• “Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.”
• “There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.”
• “Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.”
• “Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”

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