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Quotes by Activist
"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
69
"We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia."
69
"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
69
"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."
69
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
69
"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."
69
"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
69
"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,
69
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
68
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
68
"These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties."
Old,
67
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
67
"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction."
67
"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."
67
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
67
"In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there."
67
"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."
67
"If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated."
67
"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful."
67
"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
67
"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."
66
"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."
66
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
66
"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
66
"I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give."
66
"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
65
"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove."
65
"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence."
65
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