To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. —Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman historian

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. —Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

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There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. —Stokely Carmichael, leader of the SNCC and the Black Panther Party

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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do — that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. —John Burns, British activist

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People don’t follow titles, they follow courage. —William Wells Brown, American civil rights activist

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People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don’t see them; they don’t see me; we don’t interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn’t have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn’t keep up with their promise. Education didn’t prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. —Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist

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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. —Saul Alinsky, American community organizer

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. —Jane Addams

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