Category: activist
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
Desmond Tutu
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad!
Marcus Garvey
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It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
Marcus Garvey
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Susan B. Anthony
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The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‘Republic,’ and then I had to go over that five times or something.
Huey Newton
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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
George Bernard Shaw