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Quotes by Activist
"We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia."
35
"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
35
"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
35
"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free."
35
"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament."
34
"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
34
"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."
34
"If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education."
34
"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
34
"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."
34
"Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul."
Soul,
34
"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."
33
"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
33
"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence."
33
"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
33
"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."
33
"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,
33
"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."
33
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
33
"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."
33
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
33
"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."
33
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
32
"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
Time,
32
"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
32
"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."
32
"Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist."
32
"If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country."
32
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