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"By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young."

"By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young."

Maggie Kuhn, American Activist

Vision, Old, Will

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"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life."

"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Life, Power, Idea, Glory

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"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

John Burns, English Activist

Politics, Socialism

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"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

Lydia M. Child, American Activist

Life, Lie, Cure, Humanity

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"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."

Florence Nightingale, English Activist

Opportunity, Beginning

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"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us."

"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us."

Bobby Seale, American Activist

Heroism, Heroes, Police

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"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford."

"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Society, Class, Luxury

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"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

Jesse Jackson, American Activist

Dream, Dreams, Government, Right, Surrender

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"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history."

"We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history."

Sonia Johnson, American Activist

Change, History, People, Difference

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"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."

Julia Ward Howe, American Activist

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"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal."

"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Philosophy, Death, Betrayal, Fear, Choice

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"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."

"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Education, Knowledge, Books, Learning, Influence

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"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations."

"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations."

Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist

Revolution, Marxism, Struggle

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"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented."

"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented."

Ernestine Rose, American Activist

Government, Being, Rights, Land

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"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."

"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."

Edward Carpenter, English Activist

Friendship, Soul, Friend, Thoughts, Self

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"In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed."

"In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed."

Malcolm X, American Activist

Religion, Obedience, Consequence, Power, Morality

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"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."

"As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

Danger, Fate, Future, Nation

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"Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed."

"Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Consciousness, Creation, Perception, Reality, Awareness

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"We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?"

"We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?"

Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Activist

People, Being, Nation

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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

Frances E. Willard, American Activist

Sympathy, Thought, Fashion

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"You can do whatever you want with my work."

"You can do whatever you want with my work."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

Mary Antin, Russian Activist

Food, Father, Cooking, First

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"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things."

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

People, Walking

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"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject."

"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

College, Complaint, Nothing, Students

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"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."

"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."

Colman McCarthy, American Activist

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"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

Saul Alinsky, American Activist

Change, Conflict, World

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"Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods."

"Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

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"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"

"You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

Faith, Love, Computers, Direction

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"We are all cells in the same body of humanity."

"We are all cells in the same body of humanity."

Peace Pilgrim, American Activist

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"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"

"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"

Susan B. Anthony, American Activist

Woman, Women, Dogs, Moon, Right

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"Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right."

"Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

Conscience, Liberty, Right, Worship

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"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."

"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."

Florence Kelley, American Activist

Chance, Man, Order

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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."

"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."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

Opportunity, Country, Desire, Evolution

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"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power."

"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Man, Men, Power, Woman

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"When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers."

"When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers."

William Kunstler, American Activist

People, America, Judges, Justice

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"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie, there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."

"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie, there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Society, Feminism, Equality, Empowerment, Justice

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"My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you."

"My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Freedom, Choice, Life, Parenting

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"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces."

"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces."

Earl Browder, American Activist

Power, Growth, Radical, Relationships

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"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."

"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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"Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety."

"Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety."

Patricia Ireland, American Activist

Woman, Women, Focus, May, Violence

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"There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!"

"There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!"

Maggie Kuhn, American Activist

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"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"

"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"

Ernestine Rose, American Activist

Man, Men, Confession, Drinking, Fighting

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"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding."

"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding."

Margaret Sanger, American Activist

Love, Marriage, Body, Desire

30

"I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium."

"I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium."

Betty Shabazz, American Activist

Politics, Extreme, Man, Right

30

"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."

"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."

Mother Jones, American Activist

Constitution, End

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"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."

"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist."

Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Activist

30

"Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream."

"Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream."

Patricia Ireland, American Activist

Woman, Women, Dream, Progress, Positive

30

"What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America."

"What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America."

Louis Farrakhan, American Activist

War, Afghanistan, America, Doctrine

30

"May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago."

"May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago."

William Kunstler, American Activist

History, Chicago, Day

30

"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."

"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."

H. Rap Brown, American Activist

Revolution, Talking

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