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2519 Activist Quotes

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

About Feel Freedom Gives
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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Accused Been Being Constantly
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I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

Arduous Find Labor Physical
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It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
Age Discouraged Hard Hollywood
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

About Confidence Feet Life
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I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Breakdown Devastated Divorce Had
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I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

Always Every Every Time Falling
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In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

Because Lost Man Marriages
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
Anymore Go Knowing Letting
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Had Knew Memoirs Write
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Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Back Because Child Eyes
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The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Did Forgive Forgiving How
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Abraham Abraham Lincoln Carry Certain
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I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
Angels Belief Deep Fought
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

About Active Books Chance
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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

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What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

About Determine Does Feel
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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

Adverse Adverse Conditions Amaze Capacity
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

Assets Begin Cultivated Nurtured
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

About Country Crime Direct
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The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.

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We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

Accept Age America Birth
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Benefit Children College College Education
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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

About Benefit Country Future
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We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Average Did Living Longer
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I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

Adolescent Empty Feel Felt
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

We live Wonderful world Beauty Adventure
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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

The art People True mirror Mind
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Ignorance Afraid Change
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Democracy Good Other systems Worse
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country

Citizenship Service Country
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Change History Faces Portraits
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Really are Matters Other people Think
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What we need is a generation of peace.
We need Generation Peace
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Nothing more Horrifying Stupidity In action
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

Fundamental rule Human life Approach
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Life Game Cards Dealt you
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

So bad Dangerous In life Fear
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Great disaster Remember Big things Life
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Too easy Make suggestions Escape Consequences
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Policy Too cautious Greatest risk
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Time Not measured Passing Years
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

Tell Condition Nation Looking at status
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Failure comes We forget Ideals
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The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

The best Noblest gifts Humanity Monopoly
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There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

No end Adventures Have We seek
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral

Freedom Menaced Justice threatened Aggression
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

No country Slaves Dogmatic mentality
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

Great revolution Vital Urgent Need
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Future Belong to Science Friends
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