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2519 Activist Quotes

You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends.

Peaceful means Be used Ends Destructive means
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I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

Can separate Human rights All people No matter
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Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Struggle Ending process Freedom Never
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Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Freedom Justice Be parceled Political convenience
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My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

Freedom song Struggle One's purpose Overcome fear
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The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

The greatness A community Accurately measured Compassionate actions
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Women The soul The nation Be saved
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When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

When fear Rushed in I learned To hear
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

I believe In freedom Tolerance Human right
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Segregation Was wrong Was forced White people
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There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

No reason A nation As rich Be blighted
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Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.

Justice Never advanced The taking Human life
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If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

Use weapons War About peace Have more
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To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

Abandon Affirmative action Nothing more Be done
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Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Revenge Retaliation Always perpetuate Anger
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I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful.They feel it.

I believe Women know Their husbands Are unfaithful
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We have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.

The example People needs Role models So important
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It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.

Don't care Poor people Exploit them Cheap labor
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Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources -it is a deficit in human will.

We have To feed Be poverty Our science
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People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

People To starve To death Are solutions
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The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.

The failure Invest In youth Compassion
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Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

No-violence Permanent attitude We bring Breakfast table
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Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.

Tried to Live His life Serving others
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You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.

Have to People Who prick The consciences
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We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.

Can prevent Many people Becoming terrorist Truly listening
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Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

Nonviolence Credible response Seeing around The world
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Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

Movement perfected My journey Discovery Pour out
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Greatest challenge Bring about Revolution The heart
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We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Long loneliness Have learned Only solution Is love
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Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Don't worry Being effective Just concentrate Being faithful
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I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Love God The person The least
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

To believe People Never mean They say
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Think what the world could look like if we took care of the poor even half as well as we do our Bibles!

Think what The world Look like Took care
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There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

Plenty Own hearts Changing Own attitudes
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The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Biggest mistake Play things Very safe This life
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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Women think Whole bodies See things
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With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey.

With prayer On cheerfully Even happily How grim
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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Common sense In religion Is rare Heroic
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My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

My strength Returns to The reading The psalms
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If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer.

Sow time Reap time To church Quiet hour
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To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

Birth control Abortion Are genocide Make room
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Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

Communities Made up Unlovable The lovable
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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

We love Enough Bear with Each other's
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What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families,in our work,in all our relationships.

All want To love Be loved Our families
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Food The body Not enough The soul
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We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Must talk About poverty People insulated Own comfort
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If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

Change things Had better Have Your wits
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Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Love Casts out Fear Get over
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The only solution is love.
Only solution Is love
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The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Meet people More convinced Only work On ourselves
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