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Quotes by Activist
"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
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"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."
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"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
Work,
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
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"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
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"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great."
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"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."
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"So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date."
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"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."
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"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."
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"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
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"I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyond the valley. But, as I watched my brother running across the roof, flying their kites and skillfully flicking the strings back and forth to cut each other's down, I wondered hoe free a daughter could ever be."
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"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
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"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition."
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"Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet."
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"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
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"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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"Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week."
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"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice."
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"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld."
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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."
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"Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists."
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"When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are."
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"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."
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"I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it."
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"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."
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"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."
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