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Quotes by Activist
"I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being."
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"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people."
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"With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens."
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"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."
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"The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry."
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"Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here."
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"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
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"Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it."
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"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."
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"Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work."
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"Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person."
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"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution."
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"In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'"
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"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
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"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
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"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story."
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"Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through."
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"The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform."
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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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"Many of the Jews who owned the homes, the apartments in the black community, we considered them bloodsuckers because they took from our community and built their community but didn't offer anything back to our community."
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"Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body."
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"One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding."
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
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"Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous."
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"I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively."
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"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"
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