Category: activist
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Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
George Bernard Shaw
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
Jesse Jackson
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
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There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.
Huey Newton
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Jesse Jackson
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
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My family – my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.
Ruby Bridges
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale