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“Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.”

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“We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made fresh and never finished; that activism can be the journey rather than the arrival; that's struggle doesn't always have to be confrontational but can take the form of reaching out to find common ground with the many others in our society who are also seeking ways out from alienation, isolation, privatization, and dehumanization by corporate globalization.”

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“If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.”

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“You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.”

“This world is not here for you; you are here for it.”

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“My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.”

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“Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!”

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“Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.”

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“HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.”

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“The role of an activist is not to lead the masses with a flag draped around his or her shoulders. Activists meet a few people at a time in a coffee shop to explain in hushed tones why they should believe when no one else does. An activist’s moment is not the moment of change; it is the period when change seems impossible.”

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“If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.”

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