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Quotes by Activist
"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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"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
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"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
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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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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."
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"I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water."
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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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"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."
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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices."
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"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function."
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"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
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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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"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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"He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles."
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"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
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"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
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"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home."
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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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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."
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"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
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"We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily."
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"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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"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is."
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"Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous."
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"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."
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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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"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that."
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