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Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. Louis Farrakhan

Goals Progressive See Some Betrayal Steps Makes May Interests Naturally Who

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. Malcolm X

Attitude Needs Religion People Problem World Islam Met White Society Minds Considered Muslim Muslim World Would Eaten Throughout Had Talked Because Understand Been America Race Race Problem Who Even Travels

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. Noam Chomsky

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue. Dolores Huerta

You Conflict People Try Resolve Side Sides Both Both Sides Involved Dialogue Educational Truths Get Process Then Means Each

The best protection any woman can have... is courage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Best Woman Courage Protection Any

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. Huey Newton

People Unarmed Given Subject Any Any Given Moment Moment Slavery Slaves

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. Ralph Chaplin

Food Property Natural World Logical Few Believe Resources Earth Collectively Logical Thing Parasites Seems Instead Most Shelter Private Private Property Owned Depends Being Clothing Which Race Social Natural Resources Should Thing

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. Susan B. Anthony

Happy Independence Girl Own Sense Pay Sweet Living Think Earn Earth Way Security Able Very Anybody Should Who Her

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. Dennis Banks

Moon Stars Guide Sun Us

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it. Florence Nightingale

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. Harriet Tubman

Trees Everything Sun See Through Over Like Looked Felt Glory Came Up Person Hands Same Heaven Gold

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. Louis Farrakhan

Hope Good Man Humanity Humble People Better Spirited Ten More Ten Years Better Man Wiser Years Five Mature Now Serve

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. Malcolm X

Criminal Once Remain Been Disgrace

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noam Chomsky

Obedience Would Admire Dictator Any Uniformity Media

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Saul Alinsky

Pick Freeze Target

The first step in community organization is community disorganization. Saul Alinsky

Organization First Community Step First Step

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters. Steven Biko

Heart Mind Will Free Oppressor Nothing Scare Powerful Masters His Oppressed Man-Made Controlled Manipulated Then Chains Bind Servitude

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman

Freedom Democracy You Gives Measure Assimilated

The end of all knowledge should be service to others. Cesar Chavez

Service Knowledge Others End Should Service To Others

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman

Education Kindness Soul Wealth Every Sympathy Unlock Hidden No-One True Generosity True Education Effort Child Realized Should Treasure

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds. Huey Newton

Time You Fruit Walk Organization Plant Down Tree Tell See Seeds Bears Through Delivering Over New Over It Come Concrete As Far As Bury Far Then Chop Grows Program

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky

Democracy State Totalitarian Totalitarian State Propaganda

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom Always Who Differently Thinks

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