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Human Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (9550)

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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
Anita Hill
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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
Anita Hill
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There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
Noam Chomsky
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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
John Lewis
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Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag
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There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.
Van Jones
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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
Pearl S. Buck
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.
Noam Chomsky
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
Angela Davis
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I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.
Angela Davis
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Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
Angela Davis
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I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
Angela Davis
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I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.
Angela Davis
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
Angela Davis
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Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
Angela Davis
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in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
Angela Davis
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Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
Angela Davis
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
Angela Davis
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
Angela Davis
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
Angela Davis
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
Angela Davis
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When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
Angela Davis
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It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.
Angela Davis
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