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Quotes by Activist
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
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"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
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"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development."
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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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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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"But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been."
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"Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us."
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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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"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages."
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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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"A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require."
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"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
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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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"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."
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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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"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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"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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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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"Christianity is a battle not a dream."
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"You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English."
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"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
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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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"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."
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"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."
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"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down."
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"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
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"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
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