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Quotes by Activist
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
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"My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'"
62
"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."
62
"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."
62
"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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"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."
62
"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."
62
"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
62
"Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."
62
"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."
62
"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."
62
"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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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."
62
"You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history."
62
"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
62
"The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction."
61
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
61
"We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention."
61
"Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system."
61
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
61
"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."
61
"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."
61
"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it."
61
"There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists."
60
"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."
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