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"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
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"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."
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"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."
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"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."
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"Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change."
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"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
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"Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. [' Homeless down in the corner']"
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"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."
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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
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"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."
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"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
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"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
Appreciation
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
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"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
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"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
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"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land."
Vision
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
Idealism
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
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