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Human Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (9568)

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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.
Jimmy Carter
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There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I want to be remembered for my dreams.
Vittorio Arrigoni
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We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.
Gloria Steinem
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Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.
Noam Chomsky
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Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'
Vladimir Bukovsky
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This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
Vladimir Bukovsky
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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
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I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
Gloria Steinem
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
Susan Sontag
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In general, my rule is find out where your heart is, then speak from the heart. People know the difference between that and something scripted.
Samantha Power
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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
Huey Newton
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Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
Coretta Scott King
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The end of all knowledge must be the building up of character.
Cesar Chavez
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I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.
Andrei Sakharov
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I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.
Andrei Sakharov
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Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.
Andrei Sakharov
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A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
Andrei Sakharov
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Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
Andrei Sakharov
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Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
Andrei Sakharov
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You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the hospital. A lot of that traces back to industrial meat production. These are really serious threats, all over the place.
Noam Chomsky
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
Susan B. Anthony
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