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Political Activist Inspirational Quotes (3181)

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I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at the moment, companies are the ones that have this technology - will not use this technology in a way that could adversely affect the people.
Wangari Maathai
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Wangari Maathai
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First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.
Wangari Maathai
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One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.
Wangari Maathai
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How can a human being be illegal?
Elie Wiesel
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I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.
John Lennon
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In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Lawrence Lessig
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There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.
Simone de Beauvoir
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The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said I have been made victorious through terror..
Pamela Geller
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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
John Lennon
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
Helen Keller
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Iris Chang
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Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon
Nelson Mandela
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For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly.
Ali Shariati
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The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.
Ali Shariati
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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis
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Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
Nas
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It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.
Sean Penn
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My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.
Malcolm X
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
Iris Chang
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
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The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?
Nelson Mandela
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Control yourself. You'll spurt.
John Lennon
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I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
Elie Wiesel
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