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2519 Activist Quotes

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Act Answerable Creative Creative Act
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Affects Brand Censorship Experienced
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Brings Child Fear Hate
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Between Committed Eye Fade
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Best Between Charter Continuing
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Awaits Creativity Eden Outside
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Am Convinced I Am Innocence
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Authority Like Moral Moral Authority
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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Always Facts Happened Less
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Cannot Live Me Someone
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Another Gift Give People
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Area Life Made Making
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A desert is a place without expectation.
Desert Expectation Place Without
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Characters Hemingway Learned Listen
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Alter Change How How Much
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Education The Passport Future
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

There Better Adversity Every
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Nobody Can Give Freedom
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

You Can't Separate Peace
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

Believe In The Brotherhood
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

If You Don't Have
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

You Can't Legislate Good
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Stumbling is not falling.

Stumbling Is Not Falling
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My Alma Mater Was
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

History Is People Memory
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The Future Belong Those
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Truth Is The Side
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Nonviolence Is Fine Long
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

You Show Me Capitalist
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
Without Education You Are
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Power Never Takes Back
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.

I Don't Even Call
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

If You Are Not
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

In All Our Deeds
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I Am For Truth
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their colour.

Believe Human Beings That
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Be Peaceful Courteous Obey
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The Negros Revolution Controlled
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Believe Religion That Freedom
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Have Respect More Man
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.

America Preaches Integration Practices
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Revolution Have Peaceful Turn
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

America The First Country
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Power Defender Freedom Greater
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

Been Blessed Visit Holy
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

Ballot Bullet Afraid Use
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

Dixiecrat Democrat Nothing Disguise
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Intergration Will Not Bring
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Just Don't Believe That
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