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Quotes by Activist
"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum."
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"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland."
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"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so."
Race,
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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."
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"The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States."
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"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness."
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"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
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"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."
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"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."
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"The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi."
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"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."
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"Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."
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"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
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"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
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"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
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"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."
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"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
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"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."
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"I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from."
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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
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"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
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"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."
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"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
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