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Quotes by Activist
"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."
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"When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here."
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"But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer."
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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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"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps."
Food,
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"When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights."
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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 attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
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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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"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."
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"My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism."
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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty."
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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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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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"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government."
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"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."
32
"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."
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"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation."
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"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma."
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"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
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"I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive."
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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
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"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that."
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"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed."
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"When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule."
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"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed."
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