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• If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

  Bill Vaughan

  Drinking, Political, Abuse

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• The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.

  Huey Newton

  Military, War, Gun

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• the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Art, Class, Fiction

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• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

  Don Henley

  Peace, Numbers, Special

  Song: Them and Us, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

  Al Yankovic

  Peace, Military, War

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• The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Philosophy, People, Movement

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• anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Change, Spiritual, Purpose

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• living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Dying, Purpose, Honorable

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• Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Moving, Giving, Inspire

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

  Anita Roddick

  Differences, Making A Difference, Feels

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Struggle, Monkeys, Six

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.40, Vintage

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• public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  Winifred Holtby

  Niece, Debt, May

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

  Kathy Reichs

  Able, Outrage

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• I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

  Donatella Versace

  Believe, Responsibility, Voice

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• Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Survival, World, Cop

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• I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

  Fanny Lewald

  Arms, Weapons, Heavy

  Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press

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• Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

  Bethann Hardison

  Feet, Car, Trademarks

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• It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

  Lillian Hellman

  Believe, Fighting, Pay

  Lillian Hellman (1942). “Four plays”

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• You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Community, Mind, Good Work

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• Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

  Joy Browne

  Hurt, Women, Political

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• I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Hate, Gay

  Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Add, Moral

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Tired, Our World, Cynical

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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