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Quotes by Activist
"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."
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"Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again."
36
"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
36
"Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat."
36
"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice."
36
"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then."
36
"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."
36
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out."
36
"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."
36
"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."
36
"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."
36
"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
36
"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
36
"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
36
"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."
36
"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question."
36
"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
36
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language."
36
"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
36
"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up."
36
"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."
36
"I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights."
36
"Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't."
36
"I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
36
"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?"
36
"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all."
36
"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."
36
"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."
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