Quotes about activists
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Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.
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Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.
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Peter Ackerman's work and writings on nonviolent civic resistance have been a source of inspiration and education for citizens movements and activists all over the world, ... His strong and unwavering commitment to fostering and strengthening democracy is a tremendous asset for Freedom House, and we are privileged to benefit from his leadership.
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Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.
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It's kind of a low-cost appeal to conservatives outside of Massachusetts. He's looking for things he can do to say to conservatives -- especially Christian evangelical activists -- 'Hey I'm with you,'.
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Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms. Rebecca MacKinnon
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Arresting a few leaders and activists is not going to stop us from holding the protest rally. Thousands of people will pour out into the streets (Saturday).
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Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace. Mark Regev
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Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology. Mathew Staver
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For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos. Paul Di Filippo
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None of the lawyers, clerks and secretaries I've been working with are there anymore. And there are White people running the office. I and other Black activists have stopped referring people to the firm.
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It was a great turnout. Lots of people from all over the state of Michigan come out in support...We had several dozen activists from various plants--key plants--that came out and were doing their part. The solidarity there is what the people are thirsty for, and what the union bureaucracy has denied us--real solidarity from the bottom.
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It used to be that a company could hide an oil spill in a distant land. Now the media and activists are quick to pick up and spread the news.
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The world is full of tradeoffs, and sometimes 'renewable power' activists fail to recognize that. Solar energy collectors must displace a tremendous amount of natural landscape to produce any significant amount of energy. And anything less requires a great deal of financial expenditures for very little and very inconsistent power.
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The government is a bunch of whores. Look at the people who pay to elect the government. Small farmers or cooperative activists do not pay anything other than a microscopic speck of the money spent to elect Congress. Jerry Brown
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The government has cracked down so much that today most of the major activists are already in jail. That means good people who once stayed inside and system and pushed the rules and who could have been tapped to modernize China, have been forced to step outside the system.
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My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is. Arundhati Roy
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Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
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Few people realize the vital role private foundations play in promoting societal change. More often than not, major shifts in public attitudes and public policy come not from grassroots clamor but rather from the hard work of a committed few activists with the ideas and the donors who fund them, ... Without the money that is the mother's milk of public advocacy, those inspired to agitate for change would not get very far. The assisted suicide/euthanasia movement typifies this phenomenon.
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There is nothing the Democratic leaders can do. It's the Democratic activists who are whining and complaining who could help themselves by shutting their mouths. They're distracting attention away from what the election will be and should be about - the president and Congress. They're just giving the press something to write about. Larry Sabato
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This type of investigation is really a form of intimidation and a message to activists that they will pay a price for speaking out, ... The posting of publicly available information about people who are in the news should not trigger an investigation.
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There is a debate among peace activists if impeachment is the thing to do. David Swanson
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Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.
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We can't allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings. Otto Schily
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for the educational and emotional needs of children of targeted progressive activists, and youth who are targeted activists themselves.
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Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good. Michael Franti
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People see something on TV they don't like, and some activists yell from the rooftops calling for more government intervention, but that's not what people want,
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No Republican can win their party's presidential nomination without the institutional backing of Republican power-brokers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Over the past few months, we have seen John McCain back anti-marriage amendments, stump for anti-gay activists running for elected office and demonstrate his dependence on social conservatives.
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Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.
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These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.
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As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.
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America has lost one of the great civil rights activists of our time. ... She did it with dedication, class, grace and dignity, Ed Rendell
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This is when the marathon ends and the sprint begins. For journalists and activists and candidates and campaigns, Labor Day is the first day of real intense campaigning.