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We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world
Annie Laurie Gaylor
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It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
Brigitte Bardot
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya Angelou
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I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
Henry Rollins
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A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
Harvey Milk
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When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.
Pearl S. Buck
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[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability.
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Change is hard, but change is good.
Henry Rollins
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Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.
Maya Angelou
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What does it mean, being a woman?
Brigitte Bardot
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If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.
Noam Chomsky
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
Gloria Steinem
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You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for peace.
Uri Avnery
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Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.
Uri Avnery
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I believe that Israel must concede to the Palestinian right of return in principle. Israel must, first of all, assume its responsibility for what happened in 1948, as far as we are to blame - and we are to blame for a great part of it, if not for all - and we must recognize in principle the right of refugees to return.
Uri Avnery
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It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.
Uri Avnery
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Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence the basic fact is the occupation.
Uri Avnery
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We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.
Samuel Pisar
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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan
Stokely Carmichael
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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti Smith
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To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya Angelou
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