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Quotes by Activist
"There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions."
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"No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat."
Will,
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"Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today."
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"Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not."
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"I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle."
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"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
Life,
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"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order."
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"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."
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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."
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"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."
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"Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth."
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"People learn to lead because they care about something."
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"Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom."
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"We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity."
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"That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information."
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"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."
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"Jesus never said anything about homosexuality."
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"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
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"It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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