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Quotes by Activist
"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care."
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"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
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"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."
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"But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer."
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
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"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
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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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"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
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"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
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"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."
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"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat."
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"I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist."
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"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."
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"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000."
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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
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"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area."
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"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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"What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN."
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"Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem."
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"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
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"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."
Talk,
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"Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves."
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