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Quotes by Activist
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
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"My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'"
41
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
40
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
40
"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
40
"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"
39
"I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give."
39
"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
39
"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."
38
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
38
"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved."
38
"It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves."
38
"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."
Hurt,
38
"If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease."
37
"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
37
"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy."
37
"Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love."
37
"It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments."
37
"This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had."
37
"Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."
37
"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."
36
"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
36
"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction."
36
"In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present."
36
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
35
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
35
"We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia."
35
"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition."
35
"Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."
35
"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free."
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