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First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy. Saul Alinsky
You Change Simple First Rule Simple Reason Issues Friction Get Heat Controversial Controversy Movement Means Reason Away
My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions. Saul Alinsky
Truth Truth Is People Opportunity Power Own Control Conviction Destinies Only Generally Freely Reach Fixed Decisions Act Belief Right Right Decisions
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. Saul Alinsky
Man Weapon Potent Most Ridicule
The Lord gave me 'Sojourner,' because I was to travel up an' down the land, showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name 'cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me 'Truth,' because I was to declare the truth to people. Sojourner Truth
Truth Me Travel People Cause Down Everybody Everybody Else Gave Else Sign Had Name Names Unto Another Because Lord Sins Up Wanted Afterwards Them Declare Land Two
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. Wangari Maathai
You Water Plant Tree Dig Until Make Talking Survive Done Just Hole Thing
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence. Coretta Scott King
Anger Revenge Fear Retaliation Always Perpetuate Cycle Violence
Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means. Fred Hampton
Struggle Peace Fight People Black White Megalomaniac Relentlessly Some About Because Understand Bunch Going Asking Means Even Bring Need
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. Gloria Steinem
Word Gender Society Everyone Would Would-Be Does Exist Where Themselves
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. Huey Newton
Racism Gun Soldiers Secure Only Policemen Make His Hand Establishments
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. Huey Newton
Positive Black White Male Expect Create Media Images
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson
You Change Result Tears Will Sympathy Both Render Salty Get Different Sweat
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Jimmy Reid
Silence You Injustice Face Rat Society Pressures Critical Would Promotion Insidious Rat Race Rats Faculties Around Caution Human Human Beings Blunt Happening Race Your Beings Lest Reject Chances
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. Jose Marti
Life Future Vote Trust Honor Other More Delicate Voter Involves Well His Than Any Just Interests
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti
Happiness Knowledge Practice Universe Harmony Earth Constant Through Generosity Exercise Exists Won Prudent Reason
You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. Louis Farrakhan
Good You Evil Sister Way Recognize Out Must Brother Return Get Your
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful. Malala Yousafzai
God Man Woman Women Human Being Power Big Thinking Birth Evidence Give Shall He Powerful Women Are Human Being Created Next Who Chose
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcolm X
History Man Memory People Animals Without Lower
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. Malcolm X
Me You Capitalist Show
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat. Malcolm X
Man Black Before Stars Universe Earth Had He Knew Mastered Course Sciences Up Arts Africa Flat Europe
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. Malcolm X
Freedom You Man Fight Human Being Be A Man Intelligent Human Being
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. Malcolm X
God Freedom Bible People Free Honey Destroyed Would He Go Oppressed Offered Just Land Milk
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. Noam Chomsky
You Own Control Distracted Consumption Force Cannot Your Population
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. Noam Chomsky
Saying You Will Everybody Else Say Neptune Something True Like Doctrines Sound Repeat Same Conventional Either
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. Noam Chomsky
History More Powerful Leads Imposed Loss Than Sovereignty Often Interests Shows
The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another. Sojourner Truth
Rich Rob Another Poor
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations. Stokely Carmichael
People Goals Black Country Build Own Sense Community Heritage Define Recognize Lead Call Organizations Unite
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