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Quotes by Activist
"People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics."
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"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places."
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"I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake."
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"No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist."
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"I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
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"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian."
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"The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you."
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"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."
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"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."
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"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy."
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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
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"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."
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"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement."
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"Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight."
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"It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information."
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"Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting."
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"Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves."
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"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."
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"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
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"Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem."
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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
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"You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity."
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"Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any."
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"The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography."
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"The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production."
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"I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences."
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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."
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"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."
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"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
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