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Human Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (9550)

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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
Maya Angelou
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Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.
Jimmy Carter
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
Henry Rollins
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
Harvey Milk
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I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.
Malcolm X
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There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.
Gillian Anderson
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.
Harvey Milk
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The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.
Malcolm X
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Surely mortal man is a broomstick!
Jonathan Swift
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Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.
Henry Rollins
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It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.
Henry Rollins
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Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.
Noam Chomsky
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Many women are harassed, one in three between the ages of 18 and 34, by one poll. And we need to figure out if, in fact, we are going to enable them to come forward with their complaints, as opposed to enabling harassers and abusers to continue their behavior.
Anita Hill
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If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.
Anita Hill
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I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.
Anita Hill
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we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.
Anita Hill
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calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.
Anita Hill
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I see myself as an educator.
Anita Hill
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Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
Anita Hill
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But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities
Anita Hill
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What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it
Anita Hill
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Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself
Anita Hill
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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
Anita Hill
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