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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."

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

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🇺🇸Booker T. Washington

Literature

1856–1915

"There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life."

"You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."

"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

"If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future."

"My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president."

"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."

"We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives."

"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."

"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."

"To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea."

"No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."

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🇮🇱Natan Sharansky

Politics

Movement to Free Soviet Jewry

b. 1948

"Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you. Indeed, it is the absence of democracy that represents the real threat to peace."

"Liberty and the Practice of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Thomas Szasz"

"How can the government stop anyone from protesting? The land is not their 'father's property'. The citizens are the masters of this country and the ministers are their servants."

"I can’t sleep. There’s always somebody not getting treatment. I can’t stand that."

"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."

"must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."

"Maybe some of this has to happen. Every year there is some outrageous act that reminds us that there is still so much work to be done."

"The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands."

"The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right."

"Revolution without evolution is just a waste of lives."

"The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies."

"Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war."

"We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same."

"If every one of those good words — liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights — has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?"

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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."

"You look just like that Mulder on X Factor."

"Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan."

"I am excited about this opportunity to build an organization dedicated to a mission that’s so essential in a free society,” he said in the statement."

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🇺🇸Clemantine Wamariya

Art

b. 1988

"I want to be so loud about the experience of killing each other. I want to tap into everyone’s senses, to touch on our human sensibility."

"Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!"

"If their own blood relatives discarded, betrayed, forgot and harmed them, then they are our children, our sisters our mothers that we will mourn, we will remember, we will honour their memory and we will not forget!"

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