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• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Men, London

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• I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Good Friend, Views, California

  "The Way Things Ought to Be". Book by Rush Limbaugh, p. 193, 1992.

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• We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Christian, Atheist, Struggle

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• God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant.

  Ellen G. White

  People, Church, Earth

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• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, Government, Texas

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• I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Church

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• Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

  Lynne Truss

  Wings, Protection

  Lynne Truss (2011). “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Long, Liberty

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.31, Best Books on

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• In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he may join a militant jihad and educated women as a rule, tend to withhold their blessings from such things.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mother, Believe, Blessing

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• I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Country, Atheist

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• In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Mean, Ideas

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Distance, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.138, Barbour Publishing

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• None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

  Bell Hooks

  Running, Thinking, Class

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.179, Routledge

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• To the militant, identity is everything.

  Susan Sontag

  Identity

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Strong, Humble, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Men, Errors

  "September 1, 1939" l. 59 (1939)

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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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• Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

  Edward Abbey

  Rights, Rocks, Black

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

  Marissa Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Makers: Women Who Make America". PBS/AOL documentary, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2013.

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• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Queens, Powerful

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• A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Exercise, Simple

  "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, (p. 193), October 1992.

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• There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Revolution, Substitutes

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The way you confront an organization like that is twofold. No. 1, you kill their militants. There is no room for discussion or negotiation when it comes to an ISIS or an Al Qaeda militant. They don’t want anything concrete. And if you want nothing that’s measurable or concrete, there is nothing to talk about. You must be destroyed.

  Reza Aslan

  Isis, Organization, Want

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• As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

  Renzo Piano

  Artist, Needs, Visionaries

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• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Air, Valhalla

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