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Quotes by Activist
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man."
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"We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production."
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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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"I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world."
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"I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away."
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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
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"When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'"
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"I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility."
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"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."
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"A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence."
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"If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something."
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"One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart."
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"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people."
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"Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates."
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"Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act."
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"I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana."
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"The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction."
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"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy."
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"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
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"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
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"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
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"The world since Adam has been white-and corrupt. The world of tomorrow will be black-and righteous. In the white world there has been nothing but slavery, suffering, death and colonialism. In the black world of tomorrow, there will be true freedom, justice and equality for all. And that day is coming-sooner than you think."
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"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."
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"In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss."
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"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."
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"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone."
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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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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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