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"Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?"
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Ahmed Yassin
"Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?"
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"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."
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Jose Marti
"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century."
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"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."
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Emma Goldman
"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."
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"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
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Malala Yousafzai
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
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"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
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Wangari Maathai
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
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"There is no such thing as security. There never has been."
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Germaine Greer
"There is no such thing as security. There never has been."
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"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory."
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Ahmed Yassin
"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory."
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"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength."
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Cesar Chavez
"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength."
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"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."
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Abu Bakar Bashir
"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."
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"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
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Malcolm X
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
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"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves."
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves."
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"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."
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Ahmed Yassin
"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."
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"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
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Emmeline Pankhurst
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
Law,
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"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
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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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Emma Goldman
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
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"As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement."
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Alija Izetbegovic
"As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement."
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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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Emma Goldman
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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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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Emma Goldman
"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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"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
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Gloria Steinem
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
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"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement."
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Ahmed Yassin
"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement."
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"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
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Malcolm X
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
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"We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves."
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
"We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves."
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"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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Emma Goldman
"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
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Stokely Carmichael
"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
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"There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it."
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Alice Paul
"There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it."
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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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Emma Goldman
"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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"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
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Raymond Duncan
"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
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"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on."
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Dorothy Day
"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on."
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"Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land."
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James Larkin
"Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land."
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"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
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Victoria Woodhull
"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
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"I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence."
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Malcolm X
"I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence."
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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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Mary Antin
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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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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Emma Goldman
"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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"Strong people don't need strong leaders."
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Ella Baker
"Strong people don't need strong leaders."
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
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Susan B. Anthony
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
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"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
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Angela Davis
"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
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"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
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Wangari Maathai
"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
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"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
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Ralph Abernathy
"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
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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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Jose Marti
"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
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"They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things."
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Leonard Peltier
"They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things."
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"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."
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Samuel Gompers
"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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Pancho Villa
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
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Catherine Booth
"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
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"When we can't dream any longer we die."
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Emma Goldman
"When we can't dream any longer we die."
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"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."
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Steven Biko
"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."
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"The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations."
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Aung San Suu Kyi
"The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations."
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"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
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Malcolm X
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
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"Freedom is never given; it is won."
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A. Philip Randolph
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
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"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
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Abu Bakar Bashir
"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
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"I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment."
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Sonia Johnson
"I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment."
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