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"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."
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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do."
"We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies."
"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."
"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."
"Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences."
"We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also."
"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."
"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."
"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
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