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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
    ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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    “When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”
    ― African Proverb
    tags: african-proverb, conflict, war
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Richard Adams
    “Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: evil
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara
    tags: justice, social-justice
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    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
    ― Margaret Sanger
    tags: abortion, feminism, women
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    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
    ― Margaret Sanger
    tags: abortion, motherhood, women
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    DaShanne Stokes
    “If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.”
    ― DaShanne Stokes
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    Ellen Wittlinger
    “People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world — even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?”
    ― Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish
    tags: transgender
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    Christina Engela
    “Rejecting your gay or transgender child won't make them straight. It will only mean you will lose them.”
    ― Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
    tags: child, gay, lose, rejecting, straight, transgender
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    Christina Engela
    “Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.”
    ― Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
    tags: bi, disappoint, gay, kids, parents, transgender
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    Ellen Wittlinger
    “But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.”
    ― Ellen Wittlinger, Parrotfish
    tags: parrotfish, transgender
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.”
    ― Eugene V. Debs, Eugene V. Debs Speaks
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
    ― Eugene Debs, Writings of Eugene V. Debs
    tags: anti-militarism, anti-nationalism, compassion, cosmopolitan, humanity, universal-love
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.”
    ― Eugene V Debs
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    Gloria Steinem
    “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
    ― Gloria Steinem
    tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude
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    George Santayana
    “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.”
    ― George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
    tags: history, past
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
    3199 likes



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