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Quotes by Activist
"One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going."
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"People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict."
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"There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life."
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"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
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"We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything."
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"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality."
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"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."
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"We are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
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"It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites."
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"So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
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"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth."
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"For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening."
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"There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people."
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"I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one."
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"This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects."
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"The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings."
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"I'm a machine man, and I head a machine."
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