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Quotes by Activist
"Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination."
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"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."
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"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."
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"Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you."
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"Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history."
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"The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control."
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"As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful."
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"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."
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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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"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."
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"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it."
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"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world."
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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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"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
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"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions."
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"Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job."
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"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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"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals."
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"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby."
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"The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price."
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"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
Man,
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"I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently."
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"Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."
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"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us."
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"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you."
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"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."
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"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat."
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"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."
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