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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. Emma Goldman

Women Open Always Mouths Keep Shut Need

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead. Emmeline Pankhurst

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It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands. Emmeline Pankhurst

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It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well. Ethan Zuckerman

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What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave. Fannie Lou Hamer

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Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings in America? Fannie Lou Hamer

I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test. Fannie Lou Hamer

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We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places. Fannie Lou Hamer

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Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now. Frances Beinecke

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People have to be armed to have power, you see. Fred Hampton

You People Power See Armed

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive. Germaine Greer

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. Germaine Greer

Path Dawn Reach May Night Save

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. Gloria Steinem

You World Gift Better Thinking Impact Some Had Greater Than

It's easier to blame the person with less power. Gloria Steinem

Blame Power Easier Person Less

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Gloria Steinem

Women Men Marry Some Becoming Wanted Us

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends. Gloria Steinem

Our Hurtful Adversaries Most Friends Thing

I can say whatever it is that I feel. Gloria Steinem

Whatever Say Feel

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. H. Rap Brown

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Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective. H. Rap Brown

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Harriet Tubman

Experience Liberty Weed Neglected No Experience Having Like Up Grew Ignorant

I can't die but once. Harriet Tubman

Once Die

At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong. Helena Norberg-Hodge

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. Ida B. Wells

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