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Quotes by Activist
"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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"We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it."
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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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"I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it."
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"The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi."
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
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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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"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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"The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves."
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"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."
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"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector."
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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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"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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"I need to complete my homework on time."
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"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making."
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"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us."
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"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
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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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"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."
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"I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information."
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"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas."
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"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs."
Race,
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"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure."
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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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"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival."
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"How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster'; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different."
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"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."
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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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"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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