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Quotes by Activist
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
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"Christianity is a battle not a dream."
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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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"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 World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."
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"It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him."
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"But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men."
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"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."
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"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."
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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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"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
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"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
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"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
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"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
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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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"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
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"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."
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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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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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"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself."
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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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"Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history."
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"The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader."
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"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images."
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"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world."
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"A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require."
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"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."
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"I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes."
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