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Quotes by Activist
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
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"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free."
59
"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
59
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
59
"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
58
"The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction."
58
"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."
58
"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
58
"Once you get the right image the details aren't that important."
58
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
58
"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,
58
"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."
57
"My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'"
57
"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."
57
"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
57
"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy."
57
"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."
57
"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."
57
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
57
"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."
57
"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."
56
"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
56
"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
56
"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all."
Harm,
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"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
56
"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,
56
"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
56
"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
56
"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."
56
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
56
"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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