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Quotes by Activist
"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."
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"Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century."
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"Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight."
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"If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?"
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"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force."
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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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"Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot."
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"One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding."
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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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"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."
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"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
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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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"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."
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"When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say."
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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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"They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that."
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"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."
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"The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate."
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"But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats."
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"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."
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"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."
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"Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far."
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"This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying."
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