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Quotes by Activist
"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!"
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"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."
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"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."
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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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"There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money."
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"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights."
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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."
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"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."
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"But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote."
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"More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right."
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"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."
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"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man."
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"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
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"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares."
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"I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world."
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"If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service."
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"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."
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"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
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"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
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"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization."
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"And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory."
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"I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being."
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"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
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"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."
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"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
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"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth."
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