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Quotes by Activist
"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace."
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"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."
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"Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?"
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"Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love."
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"Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most."
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"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."
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"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."
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"I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away."
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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."
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"I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod."
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"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today."
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"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."
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"Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us."
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"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
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"None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much."
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"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity."
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"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."
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"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently."
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"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."
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"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs."
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"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages."
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"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."
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"When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing."
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"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs."
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"I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go."
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"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people."
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"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."
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"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."
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"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented."
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"Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?"
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"I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm."
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"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
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