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When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.

Howard Zinn

Fall, Challenges, Roles

"Are We Politicians or Citizens?" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 1, 2007.

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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me - I actually took my teachers seriously!

Sinclair Lewis

Christian, Teacher, Believe

"Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

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Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Langston Hughes

Years, Democracy, Today

Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

Malcolm X

Wall, Hate, Singing

"Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem.

Malcolm X

Attitude, Men, America

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The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

James K. Polk

Peace, Independent, Together

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Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.

Anton Szandor LaVey

Baby, Sorry, Mistake

"The Nine Satanic Sins". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1987.

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Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Doug Phillips

Memories, War, Hero

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Shall we upon the footing of our land
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
To arms invasive?

William Shakespeare

War, Order, Land

William Shakespeare (2015). “King John”, p.72, Courier Dover Publications

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A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

Sally Potter

Clever, Mean, Thinking

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I made a joke with my sister... I said, "I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security." There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.

Juliette Lewis

Jobs, Opportunity, Two

"Juliette Lewis Talks THE FIRM and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.

Ice T

Weed, Drug, Feelings

Source: www.pbs.org

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The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

George Soros

Europe, Support, Vision

"George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

Michael J. Fox

Real, Humility, Vanity

"Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

Jesse Eisenberg

Mean, Acting

"Exclusive: Jesse Eisenberg Talks 30 MINUTES OR LESS, ZOMBIELAND 2, Woody Allen, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and More". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. August 12, 2011.

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You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.

Jeremiah Wright

Believe, Cities, People

Source: www.spiegel.de

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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

George Nolfi

Thinking, Order, People

"Writer-Director George Nolfi Exclusive Interview THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 26, 2011.

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It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual, Thinking, Ideas

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The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

Steve Carell

Laughing, Ability, Wells

"Steve Carell On Anchorman 2". Interview with Elysha Krupp, uk.askmen.com. April 29, 2014.

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From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.

Gene Kranz

Mean, Responsibility, Skills

"Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

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An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

Moby

Thinking, Artist, Joy

"Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Practice, Easy

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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This week, Georgia's board of education approved a plan that allows teachers to keep using the word Evolution when teaching biology. Though, as a compromise, dinosaurs are now called Jesus Horses.

Jimmy Fallon

Teacher, Horse, Jesus

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We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

Erykah Badu

Art, Real, Mean

Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.

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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Lauryn Hill

Doors, Way, Mediocrity

"Queen of Hip-Hop". The Academy of Achievements Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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