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"As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season."
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"Revolution starts in the mind. Question Everything!"
"Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless."
"Always contend for the good!"
"The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place..."
"The radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism."
"Much protest is naA ve; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone's individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence."
"Don't be a witness. Be an activist."
"The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights."
"We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws."
"When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!"
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"Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood."
"And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again."
"I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King."
"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year."
"Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us."
"This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there."
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