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🇫🇷Simone Weil

Philosophy

1909–1943

"The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege."

"Art expresses, it does not state; it is concerned with existences in their perceived qualities, not with conceptions symbolized in terms."

"If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."

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🇨🇭Helen Keller

Literature

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

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🇧🇷Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Politics

b. 1945

"If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions."

"perfectly possible to be critical and still be convinced we need to remain a member"

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

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

"History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."

"allows democratic control and can punish abuses of power. Only federalism can guarantee respect for national character and regional variety. ... The springtime of Europe is still before us."

"I have always held the belief that Fijians must be integrated into the mainstream of national life. You can't keep them isolated from the other communities and from the mainstream of life and expect them to progress."

"Your national representatives...want to invade and intervene in Venezuela – they say... in the name of democracy and freedom. But it’s not like that... is as false as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq..."

"And lastly, if, after a day of rest, one should feel energised for recreation of an amorous kind, he or she must heed the cautionary chorus: ‘Never on a Sunday’."

"We are not considering at all a prolongation or adding months or time to the mission in Libya."

"When I see that man on the telly — 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!"

"Backed by Washington, the coup that the Western media deny is a coup appears successful, at least for the time being."

"This ego-maniac firebrand is running through a world full of war-explosives, applying his torch wherever he may, hoping for nothing so much as a new world war from which alone he sees his hopes of glory and power."

"The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience."

"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today."

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

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🇪🇸Buenaventura Durruti

Politics

1896–1936

"The only church that illuminates is a burning church."

"Jubilee year, double-dip recession, what a start."

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."

"To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors."

"“In fifteen billion years did spirit out of less than dust evolve,” he said. “In fifteen billion more will not this universe of stars to less than dust return? Whence did it come? What is there when it is gone?"

"He was very difficult to work with. When he felt like it, it was just bliss. But he could be hideous."

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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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🇺🇸Eugene V. Debs

Politics

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."

"Written right across every page of human history is the declaration that no people can be free so long as the private ownership of the means of production and distribution endures."

"Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

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🇺🇸John Reed (journalist)

Literature

1887–1920

"So, with the crash of artillery, in the dark, with hatred, and fear, and reckless daring, new Russia was being born."

"Never has the Republican party, both nationally and locally, been quite so low in morale and so bankrupt in ideas as today. It has stood like a man dazed, watching the parade go by, and not knowing what it is all about."

"Yes, my religious views are strong ones; but I don't want to talk much about them, for I hold that a man's religion should be more in his life than on his lips."

"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth"

"It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated."

"This Hungarian Van Cliburn impressed me from the outset with a deep and confident involvement in the music, a capacity for both power and delicacy, and a preference for passion over absolute accuracy."

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