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Quotes by Activist
"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."
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"The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control."
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"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
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"Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed."
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"The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out."
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"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican."
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"Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it-and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That's why Native people were guarding it."
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"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."
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"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."
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"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
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"One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state."
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"When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports."
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"Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?"
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"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
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"Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me."
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"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
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"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people."
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"We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else."
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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."
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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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"I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents."
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"Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along."
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"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
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"The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi."
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"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby."
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"We must tell girls their voices are important."
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