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Quotes by Activist
"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."
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"To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition."
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"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
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"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
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"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man."
Man,
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"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem."
48
"The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please."
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"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."
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"This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process."
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"We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up."
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"By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show."
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"What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands."
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"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."
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"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."
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"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
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"For years and years I have done the work I was born for."
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"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance."
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"I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyond the valley. But, as I watched my brother running across the roof, flying their kites and skillfully flicking the strings back and forth to cut each other's down, I wondered hoe free a daughter could ever be."
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"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."
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"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."
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"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword."
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"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
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