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2519 Activist Quotes

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Because Both Conquest Contrary
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In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Acquire Capitalist Countries Era
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Away Diminishes Does Done
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Also Free Like People
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Each Life Live Model
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As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Back Because Color Could
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Continue Deeds Lives Memories
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being Citizen Like Second-Class
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Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Children Hopefully Meet Our
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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

After Day Demand Driver
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Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Birth Criminal Crow Done
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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

Doing Get Home Trying
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Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Again Been Bit Ever
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My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
After Concern Day Get
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Alone Desires Felt Free
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Why do you all push us around?

Around Push Us Why
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At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

Any Arrested Day Had
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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Always Because Give Giving
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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
About Everything Inhuman Know
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There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

Between Disappointment Grows Hurt
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The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential. I set examples by the way I lead my life.

Accepts Against Any Anyone
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God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
Always Given God Me
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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Accuse Acting Being Causing
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Accepting Attempted Begins Crow
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Around Because Been Bus
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Every Man Only Right
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I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Assistant Attendant Being Like
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Always Cannot Control Master
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When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Healed Hurt Remember Why
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Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

Babysitting He Love Needs
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

About Being Care Human
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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Begin Dramatic Good Many
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Career Chosen Console Inconvenience
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Attention Get Kids Lies
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Act Get Liberation Life
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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

Away Else Everyone Everyone Else
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It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Be Happy Happy Late Never
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If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

Cry Ever Get Getting
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My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

Complete Her Herself I Can
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I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Almost Always Anything Before
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I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

Acting Apart Given How
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I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

Alone Brave Challenge End
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People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

Actress Behind Easy Find
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Always Cry Easy Father
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I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

Father Frankly How I Was Raised
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I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

Being Between Find Half
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A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

About Being Dieting Exercising
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
All My Life Believed Had Life
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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Learn Long Long Time Me
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