Quotes about american-activist
american-activist country power
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. Kathy Acker
american-activist censor work
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
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I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
american-activist country internal
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
american-activist believe far lived people terrible treated withdrawn
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves. Kate Millett
american-activist capital country
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
american-activist gets movement time tough
We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong. Patricia Ireland
american-activist dealing hasten instead task
Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things. Julian Bond
american-activist eat food house people
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him...The people who give you their food give you their heart. Cesar Chavez
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Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11. Charles Evers
american-activist die great living prepared secrets
Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living. George Rockwell
american-activist blame happened mass media ourselves together
In a sense, I blame ourselves - together with the mass media - for what has happened in Watts, Harlem, Chicago, Cleveland, Omaha. Stokely Carmichael
american-activist faults
I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. Jimmy Hoffa
american-activist courage dead fish matter opposite speak
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower
american-activist brought indian indians people
Indian policy" has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century. Russell Means
american-activist brussels citizens eu gap increasing lack makers perceived problems similar
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. David Korten
american-activist care device document equal original patient safe
The device has to demonstrate and document to be safe for patient care and be equal to the original device specifications, and sterility must be proven. If there's any question, we don't use them.
american-activist barbados determination expect fantastic further hard ourselves prepare sort team tour work
This is just the sort of tour that we need to prepare ourselves for further international progress. We expect to have to work hard in all these games, and it is fantastic for us to be able to play the Barbados team at the end of it all.
american-activist buddies chair fall glad lives pit thankfully tied until
That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did. David Crane
american-activist art awkward bridge built music performance perhaps raising similar social
That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.
american-activist lobby lung session six took upset work
It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens. Richard Grimes
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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
american-activist covered management saw starting strikes union
It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.
american-activist examine government high literary
The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
american-activist bad understanding
We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.
american-activist country split time
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
american-activist designers games hearing letters picture playing rather screens sending spent time writers
The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.
american-activist home trying
All I was doing was trying to get home from work. Rosa Parks
american-activist exemplary
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. Constance Baker Motley
american-activist best
Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.
american-activist business fine leadership manager maybe office power
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
american-activist dictator uniformity
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noam Chomsky