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Quotes by Activist
"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."
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"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
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"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
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"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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"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."
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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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"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
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"I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying."
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"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
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"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."
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
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"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
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"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
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"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
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"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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"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."
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"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."
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