Category: activist
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I read Plato’s ‘Republic.’ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
Huey Newton
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Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Elie Wiesel
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A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation – or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays – is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
George Bernard Shaw
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
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The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
Jesse Jackson
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If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
Jesse Jackson
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt