Portraits
Portraits
Nasrin Sotoudeh
I have no doubt that equality will prevail, because without equality you cannot have peace and love, and without peace and love, life is empty
Neri Oxman
I don’t separate architecture, design, or culture. What’s more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning
Dorothea Buck
A person cannot be more devalued than to be considered unworthy or incapable of conversation
Sojourner Truth
If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it
Wilma Rudolph
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose
Zora Neale Hurston
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground
Cecilia Payne
There is no joy greater than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas
Margaret Mead
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals
Sakena Yacoobi
When you share love, compassion, and wisdom, you provide humanity with an indestructible base for living in peace and harmony
Louise Nevelson
The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved
Hazel Scott
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can’t go hand in hand, I don’t want to go
Jane Wilson
What I’m aiming for are moments of strong sensation ⎯ moments of total physical experience of the landscape
Greta Thunberg
I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. Then I want you to act!
Sylvia Earle
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do
Winona LaDuke
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist
Rachel Carson
man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself