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Quotes by Activist
"Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country."
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"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."
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"What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact."
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"In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be."
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"I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world."
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"I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial."
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"I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"
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"On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home."
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"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts."
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"The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization."
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"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."
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"The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values."
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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."
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"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."
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"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"
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"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
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"The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing."
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"Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track."
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"Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior."
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"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
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"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."
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