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"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."

"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."

Jesse Jackson, American Activist

Equality, Greatness, Measure

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"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."

"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."

Angela Davis, American Activist

Government, First

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"Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright."

"Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Talent, Country, Culture, Humanity

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"There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us."

"There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Woman, Women, Revolution, Will

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"War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence."

"War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence."

Scott Nearing, American Activist

War, Violence, Will

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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."

"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."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Politics, Power, State, Control

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"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."

John Burns, English Activist

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"This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished."

"This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished."

Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

Man, Men, Doctrine, May, State

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"The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power."

"The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power."

Jerry Rubin, American Activist

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"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."

"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."

Satish Kumar, Indian Activist

Politics, Exaggeration, Land, Risk

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"Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking."

"Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking."

James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist

Imagination, Time, Civilrights

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"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."

"When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

Life, Hatred, Lies, Violence

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"Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy."

"Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Finance, Debt, Law, Life, Economy

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"Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice."

"Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Woman, Women, Children, Pornography, Practice

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"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."

"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation."

Victoria Woodhull, American Activist

Freedom, Resignation, Will

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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice."

"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Enemy, Enemies, Liberty, Voice

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"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Victoria Woodhull, American Activist

Happiness, Life, Sex, Liberty

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"It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love."

"It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love."

Victoria Woodhull, American Activist

Love, Christian, Difference, Old

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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."

"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."

Wavy Gravy, American Activist

Travel, Englexample, Television

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"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it."

"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it."

Saul Alinsky, American Activist

Belief, Dawn, Will, World

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"I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise."

"I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Life, Journey, Experience, Adventure

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"There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states."

"There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

Nation, Country, Monuments, States

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"The art of politics is knowing what to do next."

"The art of politics is knowing what to do next."

James P. Cannon, American Activist

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"The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined."

"The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Society, Control, Freedom, Structure

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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."

"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."

Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

Government, May, Reason, Rome, Socialism

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"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."

"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American Activist

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"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care."

"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care."

Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

Government, Aggression, Care, State

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"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

John Burns, English Activist

Effort, Poverty

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"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."

"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."

Mary Antin, Russian Activist

Family, Father, People

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"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."

"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again."

Dorothy Day, American Activist

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"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."

Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Activist

Technology, Disaster, Hatred

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"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order."

"Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order."

George Jackson, American Activist

Politics, Order, Today, Victims

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"I like America to some extent."

"I like America to some extent."

Michael Moore, American Activist

Opinion, America

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"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

Jim Hightower, American Activist

Courage, Conformity, Cowardice, Fish

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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."

"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."

Sarah Brady, American Activist

Victory, Commonsense

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"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true."

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true."

Jesse Jackson, American Activist

Health, Americans, Being, Care

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"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."

Jane Addams, American Activist

Attitude, Men, Civilization, Living

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"They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors."

"They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors."

Jack Cade, English Activist

Friendship, Englfirst, Friends, Hate, Lies

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"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."

"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."

Satish Kumar, Indian Activist

Age, Nonviolence

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"I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin."

"I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin."

Wavy Gravy, American Activist

Courage, Struggle

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"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."

"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning."

Kate Millett, American Activist

Woman, Women, Proof

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"I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous."

"I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous."

Sarah Brady, American Activist

Time, Thought, Now, Right

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"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."

"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."

Patricia Ireland, American Activist

Health, Women, Care, Support

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"The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies."

"The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies."

Louis Farrakhan, American Activist

God, Death, Victory, Confidence

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"I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did."

"I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did."

Sherman Austin, American Activist

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"While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours."

"While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours."

Sherman Austin, American Activist

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"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

Experience, Medical, Duty, Evaluate

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"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

John Burns, English Activist

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"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."

"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."

Rose Schneiderman, Polish Activist

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