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Human Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (9550)

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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela Davis
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Angela Davis
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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Jonathan Swift
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Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.
Jimmy Carter
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When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.
Malcolm X
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
Ida B. Wells
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
Pearl S. Buck
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A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?
Jane Addams
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In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.
Michelle Alexander
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Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.
Henry Rollins
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After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
Patti Smith
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
Van Jones
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Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
Gloria Steinem
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I have no enemies and no hatred.
Liu Xiaobo
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
Patti Smith
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There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
Gloria Steinem
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The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China or Iran. This reflects a radical shift in criminal justice policy, a stunning development that virtually no one - not even the best criminologists - predicted forty years ago.
Michelle Alexander
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Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
Vinoba Bhave
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Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.
Vinoba Bhave
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
Vinoba Bhave
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When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.
Vinoba Bhave
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Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
Vinoba Bhave
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