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What we've seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives. We don't think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make black lives matter. Alicia Garza

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Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people. Alicia Garza

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If you're to look at people's social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of black people - it doesn't happen. It makes sense to me that online would be as segregated as offline because it's just mimicking patterns that exist in real life. Alicia Garza

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I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would. Alicia Garza

Politics Thought Would About More Learned Than Much Ever

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Alija Izetbegovic

Racism Complicated Strong Three Country Nationalism Others State Those Out Religions Bosnia Supposed Make Lot Nations Them Now Two

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam. Alija Izetbegovic

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle. Alija Izetbegovic

Struggle Believe Our Muslims Methods Goal

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. Alija Izetbegovic

Injustice People Community Live Muslim Bosnia Pushing Feel Doing Expense Cannot Forward International International Community Things

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. Alija Izetbegovic

History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions. Alija Izetbegovic

Best History Sometimes Our Best Intentions Makes Intentions Us Fun

I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty. Alija Izetbegovic

Peace Win Sacrifice Would Bosnia Sovereignty Order

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that. Amal Clooney

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A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from. Amal Clooney

Country Athens London Horseman Head Between Came His Celebrated Greece Cannot Body Means Separated Whole Appreciated

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative. Amal Clooney

Learning Abroad Studying Transformative

Democracy is dead in the Maldives. Amal Clooney

Democracy Dead

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it. Amal Clooney

Dissent Locking Does Reduce Up Fosters

I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis. Amal Clooney

Community Think More Done Ashamed Should International International Community

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon. Amal Clooney

War Hope Arabic Born Name Lebanon Means

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. Andrew Goodman

Freedom Must Arduous Road Uphill Frustrating Even

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? Andy Stern

Change Collective Collective Bargaining About Always How How Much Question Labor Labor Movement Role Movement Social Social Change Much Workers Bargaining

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing. Andy Stern

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