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Quotes by Activist
"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."
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"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
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"I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind."
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"The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.' Then you will see the beginnings of civilization."
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"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.'But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.'Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want."
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"Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense."
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"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."
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"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
Work,
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"Intolerance has been the curse of our country."
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"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."
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"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."
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"It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary."
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"We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks."
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"When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say."
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"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
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"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."
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"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later."
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"Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'"
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"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."
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"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."
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"There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money."
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"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."
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"My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised."
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"Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time."
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"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations."
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"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."
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"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."
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"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."
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"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
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