Militancy Quotes

• The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

  Melvil Dewey

  Librarian, Triumphant, Militant

  "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.

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• Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  1963 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug, during the March on Washington.

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• The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

  Germaine Greer

  Needs, Revolution, Disappear

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.

  James McBride

  Eye, Intelligent, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is "the Lord of Hosts", or "Lord of armies". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Jobs, Military

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• The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Destiny, White

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Violence, Cases, Non Violence

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• The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.

  Chuck Todd

  Creating, Rights, California

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• ...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Life, Moving, Abiding

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.153, 谷月社

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• One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Struggle, Ghetto, Organization

  Stokely Carmichael (1966). “What we want”

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• You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

  Ernest Mandel

  Order, Class, Organization

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.

  Manning Marable

  Thinking, America, Years

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.

  Manning Marable

  Struggle, Years, Organization

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• 10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Fighting, Men

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• You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

  Ernest Mandel

  Class, Levels, Consciousness

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Islamic, Terror Attacks, Government

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• I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Thinking, Political, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Islam, Mixtures, Obedience

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• It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Animal, Government, Justice

  "My Own Story: Top Biography".

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• U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Years, Administration

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.242, Macmillan

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• Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

  David Cortright

  Military, War, Fire

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Thinking, Talking, Hatred

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