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Maggie Kuhn Quotes
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
Maggie Kuhn
Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn
By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
Maggie Kuhn
Few people know how to be old.
Maggie Kuhn
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
Maggie Kuhn
When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
Maggie Kuhn
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Maggie Kuhn is best known for her work with the Gray Panthers, a radical social activist organization raising issues of justice and fairness for older Americans. She is credited with the passage of laws prohibiting forced retirement and with reform in health care and nursing home oversight.
Selected Maggie Kuhn Quotations
Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Maggie Kuhn
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