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Quotes by Activist
"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
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"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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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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"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital."
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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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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
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"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."
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"The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough."
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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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
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"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."
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"The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves."
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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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"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
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"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated."
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"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."
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"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."
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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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"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
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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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"There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice."
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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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"Aggression is simply another name for government."
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"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."
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"The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character."
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"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same."
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"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
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"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
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