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Quotes by Activist
"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
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"Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive."
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"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough."
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"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
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"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements."
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"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
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"In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions."
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"There is no such thing as security. There never has been."
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"Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."
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"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."
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"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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"If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't."
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"To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock."
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"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
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"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
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"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
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"If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease."
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"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
Law,
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"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time."
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"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
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"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
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"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed."
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"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
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"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy."
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"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
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"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."
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"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
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"We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia."
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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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"It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves."
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