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Quotes by Activist


"Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change."

"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."

"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."

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."


"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."

"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."


"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."

"That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."


"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
Will,

"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."

"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."

"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."


"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."

"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."

"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."

"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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