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Quotes by Activist
"If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country."
78
"Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere."
78
"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
76
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
76
"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
75
"Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?"
75
"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."
75
"The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations."
75
"But let's not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn't 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite."
74
"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."
74
"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
73
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
73
"We must see our present fight right through to the very end."
73
"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter."
72
"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."
72
"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."
72
"There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone."
72
"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all."
72
"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
72
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
72
"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
72
"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free."
71
"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so."
Race,
70
"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
70
"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."
70
"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
70
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
70
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
70
"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament."
69
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