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Quotes by Activist
"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."
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"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
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"It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves."
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"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction."
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"You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels."
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"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."
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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
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"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."
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"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
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"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
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"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."
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"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function."
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"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
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"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status."
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"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."
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"Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it."
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"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
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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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"If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease."
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"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."
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"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
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"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
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