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Quotes by Activist
"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
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"Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't."
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"It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense."
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"I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution."
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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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"Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."
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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."
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"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."
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"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
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"We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban-to finally achieve status and power."
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"Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building."
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"Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."
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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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"Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me."
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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
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"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books."
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"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
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"George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead."
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"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."
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"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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"My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska."
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"Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues."
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"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
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"Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible."
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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
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"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore."
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"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
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"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."
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"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
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"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
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"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
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"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."
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