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Quotes by Activist
"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
8
"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
8
"The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity."
8
"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore."
8
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
Life,
8
"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
8
"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
8
"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
8
"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."
8
"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."
8
"Evil societies always kill their consciences."
8
"We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily."
8
"And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area."
8
"This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had."
8
"Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."
8
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
8
"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is."
8
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
8
"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead."
7
"Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along."
7
"Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream."
7
"Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes."
7
"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps."
Food,
7
"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
7
"Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing."
7
"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."
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