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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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Jack Herer
"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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"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
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Noam Chomsky
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
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"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."
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Samuel Gompers
"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."
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"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
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Robin Morgan
"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
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"In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less."
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Carrie Chapman Catt
"In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less."
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"There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists."
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Sherman Austin
"There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists."
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"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
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Steven Biko
"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
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"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
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Jim Hightower
"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
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"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."
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Steven Biko
"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."
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"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart."
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Emmeline Pankhurst
"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart."
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"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."
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Francis Wright
"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."
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"The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind."
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Francis Wright
"The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind."
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"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."
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Roger Caras
"Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks."
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"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
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Ida B. Wells
"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
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"God must have been on leave during the Holocaust."
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Simon Wiesenthal
"God must have been on leave during the Holocaust."
God,
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"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."
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Peace Pilgrim
"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."
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"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."
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Francis Wright
"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."
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"Aristocracy is always cruel."
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Wendell Phillips
"Aristocracy is always cruel."
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"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"
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Betty Friedan
"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"
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"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."
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Wendell Phillips
"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."
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"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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Mary Harris Jones
"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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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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Rose Schneiderman
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
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"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth."
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth."
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"The Republican Party is not inclusive."
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Charles Evers
"The Republican Party is not inclusive."
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"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
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Gloria Steinem
"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
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"It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'"
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Jim Hightower
"It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'"
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"I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence."
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Earl Browder
"I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence."
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"First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice."
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Benjamin Tucker
"First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice."
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"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
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Wendell Phillips
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
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"Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like."
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Noam Chomsky
"Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like."
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"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
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Wendell Phillips
"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
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"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
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Mary Harris Jones
"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
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"One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free."
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Benjamin Tucker
"One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free."
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"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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Ida B. Wells
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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"There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices."
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Ernestine Rose
"There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices."
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"They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach."
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Ernst Zundel
"They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach."
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"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."
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Bobby Sands
"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."
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"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
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Steven Biko
"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
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"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
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Huey Newton
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
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"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."
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Eldridge Cleaver
"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."
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"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition."
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Simon Wiesenthal
"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition."
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"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information."
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Abbie Hoffman
"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information."
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"Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society."
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Phyllis Schlafly
"Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society."
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"I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."
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Malala Yousafzai
"I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."
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"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
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Jerry Rubin
"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display."
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"I want to make this world perfect."
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Malala Yousafzai
"I want to make this world perfect."
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"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
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Robert Emmet
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
Man,
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"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
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Noam Chomsky
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
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"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
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Malcolm X
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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Mary Harris Jones
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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