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Quotes by Activist
"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."
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"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."
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"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature."
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"One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart."
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"Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything - that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them."
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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."
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"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port."
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"We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth."
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"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
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"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
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"Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing."
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"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"
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"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
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"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."
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"I shall not grow conservative with age."
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"The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity."
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"The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin."
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"The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press."
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"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms."
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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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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
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"We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter."
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"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages."
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"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
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"The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists."
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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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