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Quotes by Activist
"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then."
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"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter."
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"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."
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"You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them."
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"I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away."
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"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."
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"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."
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"Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof."
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"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now."
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"But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead."
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"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."
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"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."
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"I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung."
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"We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us."
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"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"
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"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution."
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"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."
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"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."
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"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."
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"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."
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"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
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"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."
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"We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage."
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"President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is."
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"When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers."
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"Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body."
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"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie, there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."
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"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
Work,
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