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Quotes by Activist
"I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise."
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"Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true."
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"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law."
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"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."
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"When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal."
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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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"Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you."
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"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
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"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"
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"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."
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"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through."
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"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
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"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around."
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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
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"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
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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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"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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"A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory."
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
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"The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich."
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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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"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart."
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"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."
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