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‘This is the fi rst
time, at least in my
lifetime here, that
people are saying,
“Enough is enough.”’
—FEYIKEMI ABUDU, activist,
in an Oct. 19 interview with
TIME as #endSARS protests
against police brutality‘My most fervent (^) spread across Nigeria
wish is that
I will not be
replaced until
a new President
is installed.’
—RUTH BADER GINSBURG, the
late Supreme Court Justice, to her
granddaughter Clara Spera, shortly
before her death on Sept. 18
‘George’s calls for
help were ignored.
Please listen to
the call I’m making
to you now.’
—PHILONISE FLOYD, in a
speech to Congress on June 10,
asking lawmakers to hold law
enforcement accountable for
instances of police brutality and
misconduct, following the killing
of his brother George Floyd
‘I cannot express
how little I care that
you hate the photos.
How little I care
that it’s something
you wouldn’t
have done.’
—CHRISSY TEIGEN, in an
Oct. 27 essay detailing her
decision to document her
miscarriage on social media
‘FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE
FINDING IT DIFFICULT:
THE SUN WILL SHINE
ON YOU AGAIN, AND THE
CLOUDS WILL GO AWAY.’
—CAPTAIN TOM MOORE, British
centenarian and World War II veteran,
who raised more than $44 million for
the U.K.’s National Health Service by
walking 100 laps of his garden this
past spring, fi nishing on April 16‘It is with a heavy heart, and a sense of
deep gratitude to have ever been in
his presence, that I have to reckon with
the fact that Chad is an ancestor now.’
—RYAN COOGLER, director, memorializing
Chadwick Boseman after the actor’s Aug. 28 death‘I’ve compared it to
being touched by
a dementor in a
Harry Potter novel—
you feel that life
is leaving you.’
—ALEXEI NAVALNY,
Russian opposition leader, on being
poisoned on Aug. 20 in an allegedly
Kremlin-linked assassination attempt‘THE PRESIDENT IS GUILTY OF AN
APPALLING ABUSE OF PUBLIC TRUST.’
—MITT ROMNEY, Senator (R., Utah), in a Feb. 5
speech confi rming he would vote to convict President
Donald Trump on one of two charges of impeachment
brought by the House; on an otherwise party-line vote,
Trump was acquitted in the Senate on both charges that day‘IF SHE WERE
HERE NOW, SHE
WOULD SAY THAT
THE FIGHT IS FAR
FROM OVER.’
—DONNA STEPHENS,
wife of Supreme Court plaintiff
Aimee Stephens, who died
a month before the court’s
historic ruling on June 15
that the 1964 Civil Rights Act
protects LGBT employees from
‘I didn’t want discrimination based on sex
to be a
politician, but
fate put me
on the front
line in the
fi ght against
lawlessness.’
—SVETLANA
TIKHANOVSKAYA,
exiled Belarusian
opposition leader,
in an Aug. 16 video
calling for “peaceful
demonstrations”
and a revote
after a presidential
election that the
E.U. said was rigged‘I turned to
my husband,
and I told him,
“I’m safe.”’
—BRIAN DE LOS SANTOS,
Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) recipient, in a
June 18 interview with TIME,
after a Supreme Court ruling
blocked the Trump Administra-
tion from ending the program‘The great nation
of Iran will take
revenge for this
heinous crime.’
—HASSAN ROUHANI,
President of Iran, tweeting on
Jan. 3 after the killing of Iranian
general Qasem Soleimani in
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