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Quotes by Activist
"If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature."
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"The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself."
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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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"When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object."
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"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone."
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"The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled."
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"Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!"
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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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"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."
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"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."
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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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"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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"I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it."
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"When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal."
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"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
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"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."
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"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
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"I have the people behind me and the people are my strength."
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"My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska."
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"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
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"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."
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"As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status."
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"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."
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"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone."
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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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"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
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"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."
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"The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press."
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