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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering. Malala Yousafzai

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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up. Malala Yousafzai

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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. Malcolm X

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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave. Malcolm X

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History is not hatred. Malcolm X

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. Malcolm X

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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman

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Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed. Michael Moore

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I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue. Michael Moore

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I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' Michael Moore

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Every voice on the Left bleated about how they feared protests and riots by angry Donald Trump supporters if and when he lost the election, yet it is the Leftists themselves destroying property and blocking roads. Everyone can see where the hate is coming from. Everyone. Milo Yiannopoulos

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In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce. Noam Chomsky

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If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. Noam Chomsky

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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Noam Chomsky

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There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy. Noam Chomsky

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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. Peace Pilgrim

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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred. Randi Weingarten

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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg

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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development. Rosa Luxemburg

All I was doing was trying to get home from work. Rosa Parks

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We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people. Ruby Bridges

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All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new. Saul Alinsky

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We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.' Steven Biko

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