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Quotes by Activist
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
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"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."
Old,
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"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
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"Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism."
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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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"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free."
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"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."
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"About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet."
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"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it."
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"Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River."
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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 only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."
Self,
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"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
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"Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?"
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"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach."
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"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society."
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"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."
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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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"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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"Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us."
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"I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified."
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"I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for."
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"Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice."
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"Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week."
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"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."
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"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales."
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"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
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"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
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"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism."
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"You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree."
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"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves."
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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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