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"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"

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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live."

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

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments."

"This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!"

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"I have just noticed in the 2nd edition of The Times that the Prussian Second Chamber has finally done something worthwhile. We shall soon have revolution."

"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."

"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."

"If I had loved any one sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition."

"If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon."

"The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions."

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"

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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."

"A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice."

"         Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche that men callen daysies in our toun."

"Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."

"It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies."

"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made."

"When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it."

"If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them."

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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."

"Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country."

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

"Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee."

"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."

"To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act."

"Politics means a strong slow drilling of hard boards, with passion and judgment at the same time."

"Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers."

"Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society."

"The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!"

"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."

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🇫🇷Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics

1805–1859

"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."

"We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty."

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."

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