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Quotes by Activist
"But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life."
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"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul."
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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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"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
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"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."
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"Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century."
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"It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales."
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"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."
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"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
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"President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is."
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"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."
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"What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before."
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"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
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"Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular."
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"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
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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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"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."
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""Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century."
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"Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive."
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"They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that."
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"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
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"The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate."
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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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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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
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"When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left."
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"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
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