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Nelson Mandela

Politics

1918–2013

"I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion"

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

"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."

"It all started to spiral out of control when the death threats from ISIS started coming in. That's when I stepped away. As soon as I started to gain popularity that's when I was like 'get the f*** out of this."

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🇺🇸Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Politics

b. 1989

"I do think that we’ve been taking it too much. I think we’ve been tolerating the intolerable."

"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"

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🇨🇭Helen Keller

Literature

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

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🇬🇧Tommy Robinson

Social Activism

European Defence League

b. 1982

"The last thing we want is a war in this country, but it is the inevitable outcome for the way the country is going. Now, the British people are not going to sit back and take much more."

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Bassel Khartabil

Technology

free-culture movement

1981–2015

"My dear friend, a doctor and spokeperson of the Physicians' Coordinating Committee in Damascus was killed today by Syrian security forces"

"You tolerate me. You really tolerate me."

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🇺🇸Sharon Smith (writer)

Literature

Socialism

b. 1956

"is not simply a women's issue, but also a racial issue in U.S. society."

"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

"I don't want anybody to say to me, 'I'm fine with it, I accept you.' You think, wow, thanks so much, because if you hadn't I would have killed myself."

"To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness."

"I think that this stupid Polish society, this fucking bunch of imbeciles who voted for these whores cockroaches from PiS is some fucking misunderstanding!"

🇺🇸Arun Manilal Gandhi

Politics

1934–2023

"I find that what is happening here is ten times worse than what I had experienced in South Africa. This is Apartheid."

🇺🇸Khalid Abdul Muhammad

Politics

1948–2001

"Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews... Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew."

"To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that."

"There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black."

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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."

"Dealing, although dangerous, is a tax-free way of surviving even though it borders on work."

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

"Never, ever retract. The smell of weakness is like blood to sharks."

"To save something beautiful you must destroy it, so it does not fall, limp and degraded, from our miserable human hands."

"In Islam, there is no difference between the state and the religion. The religion is the state, the state is the religion."

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives."

"Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations , on nonhuman creatures , and on the planet itself ."

"The enlightened soul is a person who is self-conscious of his "human condition" in his time and historical and social setting, and whose awareness inevitably and necessarily gives him a sense of social responsibility."

"Fun Couple of the 21st Century" on Power and Cass Sunstein in Esquire"

"Black people in this country must understand that we are the vanguard force. We shall liberate all the people in the United States, and we will be instrumental in the liberation of colored people the world around."

"Harry Haywood Archive at marxistleninist.wordpress.com"

"so broad that it fails to distinguish between Islamists and politically active Muslims inspired by Islam"

"In this country, authority is a cover for wrong. I don't respect wrong and I don't respect authority that represents wrong."

labor movement in the United States

1855–1926

"Had Ingersoll and Phillips devoted their lives to the practice of law for pay the divine fire within them would have burned to ashes and they would have died in mediocrity."

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