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Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic. Amal Clooney

Matter Free Free Speech Only Also Protecting Principle Pragmatic Speech

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. Andrew Goodman

Problem Black Society State Neglect Our Muslims Must Constitute Only Affairs Current Deplorable Irritate Heeded Should Warning Preserve

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life. Angela Davis

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. Angela Davis

I am a mystery to myself. Angelina Grimke

Myself Mystery Am

If you do nothing you get nothing. Aung San Suu Kyi

You Nothing Get

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age. Aung San Suu Kyi

Day Age World Voice Day And Age Over Heard Loudly Even

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. Aung San Suu Kyi

Rights People Feeling Human Rights Lead Always Human Less Fundamental Violations

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments. Benjamin Todd Jealous

Trust Law Police Innocent Nation National Past Our Resources Those Law Enforcement Crucial Individuals Between Like Look Sound Discourse Departments Place Them Racial Enforcement Communities Who Actions Serve Profiling Needed

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism. Benjamin Todd Jealous

Racism People Burden Black Men White Folk Sexism About Only Sort Talking Ultimately End Persistent Race

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises. Bhagat Singh

Struggle Political Nation Beginning Strategy Think Rises Rather Compromise Compromises Indispensable Factor Through Generally Fail Partial Bound Period Oppressors Reforms Any Deplorable In The Beginning Gain Against Thing Medieval

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime). Bhagat Singh

Destruction Better Revolution Society State Complete Strife Systematic Must Reconstruction Clear Merely New Implies Make Does Affairs Existing Upheaval After Regime Mean Necessarily Basis Programme Adapted

I was a militant. Bill Ayers

Militant

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated. Bobby Sands

Government Trials Political Long Country Prison Changed Our Everything Out Would About Almost Policy Arrest Prisoners Motivated Conditions Domestic Domestic Policy Political Prisoners Persistent Politically Experienced Then Show Certainly England Asserted Resistance British British Government

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism. Bobby Seale

Heart Nothing White Everyone About Wrong Beyond Xenophobic Got Isolationism Person Get Being Where Your Cop

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party. Bobby Seale

Black Party Panther Would Never Had Malcolm Malcolm X Been

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines. Bobby Seale

People Revolution Down Unity Programs Complete Crossed Had Because Real Came Lines Where Racial Us Working Coalition

Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism. Candace Owens

Me Racism Police Fighting Claim Attacked Police Force Force Fascists Philadelphia

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