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Quotes by Activist
"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
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"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."
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"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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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 moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice."
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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'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility."
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"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."
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"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
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"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."
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"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
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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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"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."
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"Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not."
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"For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable."
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"Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us."
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"Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made...."
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"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."
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"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach."
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"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
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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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"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals."
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"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
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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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"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."
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"Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy."
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"If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world."
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"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
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