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"The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence."
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Carl Pope
"The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence."
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"People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't."
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"Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship."
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"Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done."
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Sidney Hillman
"Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done."
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"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
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Noam Chomsky
"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
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"A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed."
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Barbara Smith
"A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed."
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"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs."
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"Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society."
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Daniel De Leon
"Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society."
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"Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades."
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Florence Kelley
"Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades."
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"To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot."
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Lane Kirkland
"To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot."
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"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors."
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Olympia Brown
"He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors."
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"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."
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Henry Hampton
"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."
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"I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever."
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Cindy Sheehan
"I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever."
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"Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God."
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George Ripley
"Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God."
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"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
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Satish Kumar
"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."
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"Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces."
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Earl Browder
"Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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Gloria Steinem
"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
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Gloria Steinem
"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
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"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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Mother Jones
"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
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"I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno."
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Cindy Sheehan
"I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno."
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"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."
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Charlotte Bunch
"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."
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"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."
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George Lincoln Rockwell
"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."
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"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear."
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Mary Church Terrell
"Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear."
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"Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be."
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Elaine MacDonald
"Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be."
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"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations."
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Lucy Stone
"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations."
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"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser."
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Mother Jones
"I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser."
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"What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest."
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Millicent Fawcett
"What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest."
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"Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment."
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Judith Ellen Foster
"Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment."
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"The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal."
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Olympia Brown
"The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal."
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"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution."
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Van Jones
"There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution."
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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."
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Gloria Steinem
"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."
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"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?"
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Phyllis Schlafly
"How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?"
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"Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace."
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Gloria Steinem
"Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace."
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"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights."
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"People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent."
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Bob Black
"People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent."
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"Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study."
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Millicent Fawcett
"Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study."
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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
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Malcolm X
"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
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"The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all."
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Olympia Brown
"The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all."
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"Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment."
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Bob Black
"Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment."
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"Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life."
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Florence Kelley
"Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life."
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"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."
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"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little."
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Gloria Steinem
"Dying seems less sad than having lived too little."
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"The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present."
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Lane Kirkland
"The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present."
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"We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny."
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Catherine Booth
"We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny."
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"We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men."
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George Ripley
"We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men."
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"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."
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Gloria Steinem
"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."
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"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
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Malcolm X
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
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"Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square."
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Gloria Steinem
"Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square."
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"The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!"
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Noam Chomsky
"The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!"
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"Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary."
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Noam Chomsky
"Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary."
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