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Quotes by Activist
"The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill."
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"The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States."
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"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
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"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live."
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"No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible."
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"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."
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"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."
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"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
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"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld."
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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
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"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great."
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"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."
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"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."
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"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None."
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"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."
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"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."
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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."
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"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
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"Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one."
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"I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years."
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"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."
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"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."
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"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."
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