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Quotes by Activist
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful."
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"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men."
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"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."
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"Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred."
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"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship."
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"I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented."
Life,
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"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."
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"If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake."
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"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings."
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"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."
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"I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one."
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"I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent."
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"The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us."
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"I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine", so we suppress it-until it overflows."
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"The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion."
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"Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery."
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"Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims."
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"In Indian Country, he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning-and more will."
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"I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science."
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"It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence."
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"I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women."
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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."
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"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."
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"The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating."
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"Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent."
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"Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle."
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"Self-esteem isn't everything, it's just that there's nothing without it."
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"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."
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"An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment "Thou shall not kill.But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22"23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life."
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