Campus Quotes - Page 11

• Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, White, Black

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Travel, Order, Long

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.199, Vintage

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• You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

  Donna Shalala

  Believe, College, Ideas

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• The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Community, Church, Shepherds

  Dillon Burroughs (2011). “Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers”, p.97, Harvest House Publishers

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• The early feminists were pro-life. And really, abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn't been presented that way. As Feminists for Life-what we're trying to do is support women, and so what we want to do is-reach women on campus-college campuses so that, when they get pregnant, they can find housing. They can find money they need to stay in school.

  Patricia Heaton

  School, College, Pro Life

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