#agitation

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#another #cannot #chauvinism #destructive #driving

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ↗

— Robert Peel

#conscience #laws #marshalling #mold #nation

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ↗

— Florence Kelley

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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. ↗

— William Falconer

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. ↗

— Johann Most

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If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ↗

— Johann Most

#battle #before #called #doubt #enlightened

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions. ↗

— Karl Radek

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