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Quotes by Activist
"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."
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"There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different."
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"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time."
15
"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
15
"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."
15
"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
15
"I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung."
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"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
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"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."
15
"Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy."
15
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
14
"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."
14
"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
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"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
14
"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home."
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"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information."
14
"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."
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"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
14
"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
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"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."
14
"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,
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"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
Law,
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"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
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"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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