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""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

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🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

"Audio files of speeches and interviews at UC Berkeley"

"I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental."

"I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal."

"The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do."

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift—a more human face."

"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."

"We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk."

"From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh."

"The Jews talk about "never again."… You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!… "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!"

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🇺🇸Mary Church Terrell

Social Activism

1863–1954

"I arose and said, As a colored woman, I hope this association will include in the resolution the injustices of various kinds of which colored people are the victims." p. 143"

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel."

"the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by."

"The lawyer Gloria Allred, a longtime master of the press conference."

"I hope one day not only Hong Kong people, but also people in mainland China, can enjoy freedom and democracy."

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

"It's my constitutional right to sit here as much as that lady. I paid my fare, it's my constitutional right."

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🇺🇸Jesse Jackson

Politics

civil rights movement

1941–2026

"When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change, and growth."

"To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people."

"Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt."

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🇺🇸A. Philip Randolph

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1889–1979

"If the Church, white or black, is to express the true philosophy of Jesus Christ, Himself a worker, it will not lend itself to the creed of oppressive capitalism which would deny to the servant his just hire."

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