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2519 Activist Quotes

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

There Nothing Our Book
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Sitting Table Doesn't Make
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My Father Didn't Know
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The White Man Pays
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Hard For Anyone That
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

You Have Dog Must
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

There Is More Apartheid
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

The Bible God Offered
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History proves that the white man is a devil.

History Proves That The
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

The White Man His
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.

Power Doesn't Back Up
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

You Can't Hate Root
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

The America Negro Never
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My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

My Black Brothers Sisters
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

Against Blacks Blanket Indictment
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

The America Negro Has
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I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

Leader Little Offer Breakdown
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

Destiny Orbit Weightlessness Your
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Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

Joy Infectious Leprosy
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Experience Grew Having Ignorant
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Going Got Hold Lord
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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Conductor Conductors Eight I Can
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Crossed Free Freedom Had
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The Human spirit and faith is not usually being challenged by the predictable and the routine but by the overwhelming and the uncertain.

Human spirit Faith Uncertain Routine
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Came Everything Felt Glory
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Came Fight Go Lasted
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
Never Snake Wound Kill
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The future is built with the bricks of optimism.
Built Future Bricks Optimism
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Could Death Had If I Could
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Almost Call Colored Every
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

Along Always Brothers Folks
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Every time in an interval of time in history, the human spirit is tested and challenged by an affliction or a pestilence, and with faith and resilience, we have always proven to be indomitable.

History Time Human spirit Affliction
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We are up against an invisible enemy, the choice before us is; to retreat to our bunkers with all its inconveniences in order to defeat it or charge forward straight to the harms way.

Enemy.Retreat Choice Bunkers Harms way
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Truly, Citizens are now inmates.

Truly Citizens Inmates
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Away Colonialism Describe Legacy
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
Everything God Life Planet
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Dig Done Hole Just
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

Conflict Educate How Own
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Because Degradation Environmental Families
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'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

Go Going Heart Know
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Back Been Condition Dreadful
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

Another Appears Bad Bondage
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

Always Away Carried Children
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Almost all the major viruses that has consumed millions of lives of the people in human history comes from animals; Our relationship and caution in dealings with them will determine our survival, our fate and our future as co inhabitants of this planet.

Viruses Lives Human Animals
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If there is no reasonable incentives for the security men overseeing the lockdown,the checkpoints becomes the toll Gates and their anger controls the trigger.

Incentives Lockdown Gate Triggers
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It's better to Come down, Bend down and Lockdown than to run down, Bow down and go down.

Lockdown Bend down Come down Run down
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The Economic and Social fallout of COVID19 can lead to overthrow of Governments especially in weaker nations, Revolutionary insurrections, Civil unrest, rising violent crime rates and widening the fault lines of fragile societies and nations.

Covid19 Economic Civil unrest Weaker
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To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

Actually Different Different Parts Emotional
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Acquaintances Anything Friends Hide
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
Kind Many Much Once
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