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Quotes by Activist
"Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment-which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale-might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence."
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"The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself."
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"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
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"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."
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"I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine."
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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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"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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"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"You must stand for free speech in the streets."
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"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages."
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"Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many."
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"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."
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"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand."
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"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."
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"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship."
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"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."
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"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."
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"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion."
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"We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other."
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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk."
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"Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector."
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"Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives."
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"As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly."
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"There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision."
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"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all."
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"His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls. The school that my father dreamed of would have desks and a library, computers, bright posters on the walls and, most important, washrooms."
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
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"I need to complete my homework on time."
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"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."
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"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
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"The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican."
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"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."
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