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2519 Activist Quotes

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

About Choice Inherited Kind
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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

America Beings Class Democratic
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Backwards Better Child Committed
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My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

About Afraid Been Community
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

Against Biggest Biting Committed
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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Future Hold Trust Children
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There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

America Billionaires Breaks Children
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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Anything Children Does Future
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Children Poorest Group America
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Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
Automatic Weapons Socially Redeeming
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In politics, there are no friends.

Friends Politics There
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

Tough Believe Sense Strongly
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Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Education Decent Housing Enough
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In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Always Bad Every Good
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I try to act out of faith.
Act Faith Out Try
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I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Am Angry Care Children
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Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Am Central Everything Family
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

Easy Interesting Less Life
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Again Anything Become Even
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We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

About America Capacity Care
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

About Always American Declaration
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Adult All-Around Am Around
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Been Birth Children Consequences
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

About Assassination Been Deep
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We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Activists Always Building Committed
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Actions Finish Honor Kennedy
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The key is that your children are aware that you love them a lot, and that you are there when they really, really need you. If a kid was ill, I would simply leave a meeting and go home.

Aware Children Go Home
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I need to work outside government, on my own.
Government Need Outside Own
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

Always Anybody Bear Being
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It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

Challenge Going Me Never
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

Your brain Greatest weapon Heart
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You cannot transform the society of the people if the people are not part of the change.

Transform Society People Part
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

Proven Women Educated Ability
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From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that’s all that matters.

Moment Vision Project Family
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It doesn’t matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

Matter Challenges Face Fall
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I don’t care about the skin color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That’s just the bottom line of the truth.
Skin color Human being Bleed red
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can’t fool anymore.

Education Political Educate People
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!

Fool Who ask Confident Pride
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Sometimes you have to hold these ignorant people by the arm and force-feed them with knowledge…… Sometimes.

Sometime Hold Ignorant People
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There has never been, there isn’t and there will never be another YOU. That’s your secret power!!!

Never Another you Secret power
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Whatever age you are when you find your entrepreneurial bone- don’t be scared to take the leap… because you may fly…you may just fly.

Whenever age Entrepreneurial bone Scared Fly
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Say to yourself- I was made to be global, achieve things only wildest dreams could conceive and only in that incredulity will I find my true purpose in life.

Say Yourself Global Achieve
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Note your enemies’ failure doesn’t mean you yourself will succeed- it simply means we have more failures around us- rather we should focus on being the best we can be!

Your enemies Failure Succeed More
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Don’t form enemies in your mind, cos the person you are beefing maybe totally oblivious of your existence.

Form enemies Mind Person Beefing
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Dear entrepreneur, pray for strength, resilience and fortitude to keep on doing what you do. The journey isn’t for the lily-livered! But still, we thrive! Remember the real work is in sleepless nights, days of pure frustration but the rewards are worth it.

Entrepreneur Pray Strength Fortitude
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As young people, you do not need permission to participate. You must occupy your space because there is no governance without citizen engagement and youth-led accountability.

Young people Permission Occupy Your space
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We cannot shrink the future of Africa in accepting its reality.

Shrink The future Reality
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We clearly live in an era where we have the most unequal societies of all time. The rich are becoming richer, the poor are becoming poorer.

Clearly live Societies Rich
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When injustice is perceived, young people look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of violence.

Injustice Young people Violent groups
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Africa has the wealth to invest and the clearest path to reducing inequality is investing in African youth, our most important asset.

Wealth Invest Reducing inequality Youth
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