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"In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning."
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Henrietta Szold
"In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning."
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"Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change."
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Peace Pilgrim
"Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change."
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"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."
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Lydia M. Child
"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."
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"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
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Kathy Acker
"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
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"The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph."
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James Larkin
"The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph."
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"Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history."
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Earl Browder
"Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history."
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"Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court."
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Patricia Ireland
"Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court."
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"At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them."
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William Kunstler
"At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them."
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"A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose."
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Peace Pilgrim
"A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose."
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"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal."
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Patricia Ireland
"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal."
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"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
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"History is a relay of revolutions."
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Saul Alinsky
"History is a relay of revolutions."
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"One on God's side is a majority."
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Wendell Phillips
"One on God's side is a majority."
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"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."
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Mother Jones
"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."
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"I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired."
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Louis Farrakhan
"I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired."
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"The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice."
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Cindy Sheehan
"The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice."
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"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."
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Julian Bond
"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."
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"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest."
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Peace Pilgrim
"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest."
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"Failure is impossible."
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Susan B. Anthony
"Failure is impossible."
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"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn."
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Catharine MacKinnon
"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn."
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"They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running."
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Sherman Austin
"They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running."
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression."
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Malcolm X
"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression."
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"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
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Susan B. Anthony
"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
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"What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?"
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Cindy Sheehan
"What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?"
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"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics."
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David Korten
"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics."
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"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."
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Lydia M. Child
"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do."
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"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities."
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Angela Davis
"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities."
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"I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it."
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Cindy Sheehan
"I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it."
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"See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy."
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H. Rap Brown
"See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy."
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"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."
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Kate Millett
"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."
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"That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing."
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Kathy Acker
"That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing."
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"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."
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Constance Baker Motley
"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."
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"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign."
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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."
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Van Jones
"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."
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"Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both."
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Daniel De Leon
"Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both."
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"Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs."
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Betty Shabazz
"Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs."
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"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money."
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"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
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Patricia Ireland
"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
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"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
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Rose Schneiderman
"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
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"It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way."
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Kate Millett
"It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way."
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"The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over."
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Germaine Greer
"The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over."
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"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
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H. Rap Brown
"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
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"We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people."
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Louis Farrakhan
"We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people."
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"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."
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Michael Moore
"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."
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"It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow."
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James Larkin
"It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow."
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"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."
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Angelina Grimke
"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."
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"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."
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William Kunstler
"Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us."
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"Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers."
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Cesar Chavez
"Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers."
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"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."
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Kathy Acker
"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."
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"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people."
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David Korten
"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people."
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