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Quotes by Activist
"To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive..."
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"From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other."
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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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"Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy."
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"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."
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"I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying."
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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."
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"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
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"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."
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"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."
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"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
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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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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities."
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"I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent."
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"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
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"We must tell girls their voices are important."
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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."
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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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"We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections."
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"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self."
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"I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist."
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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
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"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
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"There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are very serious dangers: the species may be heading toward extinction. I can't see how anybody can fail to have an interest in trying to help people become more engaged in thinking about these problems and doing something about them."
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"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people."
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"I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships."
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"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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