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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. Wendell Phillips

Rights Protection Enemies Few Rich Minorities Protect Exist Governments Friends Loved Many Need

One on God's side is a majority. Wendell Phillips

God Side Majority

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. William Kunstler

Law No Law New Annoying York New York Being Against

People don't follow titles, they follow courage. William Wells Brown

Courage People Follow Titles

Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together. Winona LaDuke

Work Needs You Together Work Hard Water Mother Will Our Earth Station Wings Feet Protect Mother Earth Courts Covenant Commit Whether Them Land Us Roots Hard Descendants Radio Radio Station Keep

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring. Yael Cohen

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens. A. Philip Randolph

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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. A. Philip Randolph

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. A. Philip Randolph

Class Nation Must Come Within Salvation Race

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. Abbie Hoffman

Sacred Sacred Cows Make Hamburger Cows

The majority of people were always sitting in the stands. When I find people who are willing to go against the grain, who are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to change an unjust situation - that's what blows my mind out. Abbie Hoffman

When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society. Abby Johnson

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them. Al Sharpton

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It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote. Al Sharpton

Change Vote Police Rest Society Books Laws Push Like Police Officers Enact Up Officers Same Officials Hold Elected Us Elected Officials Stand Your Ground Regulations Standards Why

The reason there's so many gay people now is because it's a chemical warfare operation, and I have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children. Alex Jones

Government Gay People Documents Operation Because Chemical Said Chemicals Encourage Going Where Children Warfare Reason Many Now Homosexuality

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row. Alice Paul

You Down Plow Put Until Hand End Get Your Row

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. Alice Paul

Today Women World Crisis About Having Had Excluded Without Came Affairs Been Different Anything Might World Affairs Things

I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it. Alice Paul

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The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are. Alicia Garza

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If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me. Amal Clooney

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