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Human Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (9568)

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In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
Booker T. Washington
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The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
Shirin Ebadi
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Nothing pains some people more than having to think
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
Jesse Jackson
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Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.
Howard Zinn
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The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.
Noam Chomsky
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Vaclav Havel
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
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Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.
Emily Murphy
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To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.
Malcolm X
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
Gloria Steinem
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
Henry Rollins
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Pearl S. Buck
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In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
Maya Angelou
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
Henry Rollins
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Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I am not here to speak against the Taliban. I'm here to speak up for the right of every child.
Malala Yousafzai
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For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
Mahnaz Afkhami
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