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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."
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"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."

"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive."

"I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight."
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"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."

"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count."

"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."

"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is."

"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."

"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."

"More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right."

"We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us."

"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."
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