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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. ↗

— Angela Davis

#been #black #certain #certain extent #class

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else? ↗

— Eric Davis

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I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. ↗

— Angela Davis

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It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

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The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#canon #chip #chocolate #cream #crisis

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. ↗

— Brad Bird

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Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. ↗

— Neal Barnard

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