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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. Malcolm X

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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster. Malcolm X

Father Name Know Got His Grandfather Who Last

You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman

You Change World Care Change The World Enough Really

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. Mary Harris Jones

Fight Hell Living Like Dead Pray Pray For

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals. Michael Moore

Ethics Own Morals My Own Personal Want Anything Code Violates

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good? Michael Moore

Good Made Without Question Common Common Good Decisions Asking Should Ever

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody. Michael Moore

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Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods - government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don't win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government. Milo Yiannopoulos

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Of all the threats to free speech in history, the one the media give the most credibility to without question is the feminist movement, which is trying to rebrand public debate as harassment. Milo Yiannopoulos

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Got freedom? Thank a man, or rather, thank all the men willing to die so the rest of us can go fetal in our safe spaces if somebody hurts our feelings. Milo Yiannopoulos

Freedom Man Rest Hurts Men Somebody Feelings Our Willing Rather Safe Got Go Thank Die Spaces Us

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. Nat Turner

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As a research tool, the internet is invaluable. Noam Chomsky

Internet Research Tool Invaluable

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them. Noam Chomsky

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I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?' Noam Chomsky

China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them. Noam Chomsky

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In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. Noam Chomsky

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People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. Noam Chomsky

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In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends. Noam Chomsky

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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. Noam Chomsky

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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. Noam Chomsky

Socialism Liberal Libertarian Properly Ideals Regarded Enlightenment

It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction. Noam Chomsky

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public. Noam Chomsky

Pressure Degree Matters Some More How How Much Office Public Much

I always get more applause than votes. Norman Thomas

More Votes Always Than Get Applause

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