Category: activist
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We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.
Huey Newton
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
Malala Yousafzai
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton
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Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
Elie Wiesel
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls’ rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Malala Yousafzai
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
Elie Wiesel
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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw