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Quotes by Activist
"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."
147
"I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid - if you are afraid, you can't move forward."
122
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
121
"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory."
116
"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots."
116
"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world."
113
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
111
"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."
107
"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
105
"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
104
"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
104
"Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."
98
"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"
98
"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."
97
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
96
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
93
"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression."
93
"I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog."
90
"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."
89
"In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present."
89
"The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach."
89
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
85
"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
85
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
Law,
84
"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."
84
"A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means."
83
"Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a certain sense if the sole human value is making as much wealth as you can tomorrow. You don't care what happens down the road and you don't care what happens to anybody else. It makes perfect sense. If it destroys the world, well, it's not my problem."
83
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
82
"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
81
"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
81
"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."
80
"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
79
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