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Quotes by Activist
"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence."
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"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
65
"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
65
"You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels."
65
"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
65
"Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it."
65
"Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any."
65
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive."
65
"We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colours and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, and two ears to hear the words of love. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one."
65
"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
Time,
64
"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
64
"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."
64
"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
64
"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
64
"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition."
64
"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
64
"And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind."
64
"Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."
64
"You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution."
63
"Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle."
63
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
63
"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."
63
"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
63
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
63
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
63
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
63
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
63
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
63
"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."
63
"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."
63
"Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within."
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