“ I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new — by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist. ”
- Pierre Bayle- Copy
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“ The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous. ”
- Shirley Manson- Copy
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“ There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. ”
- Yevgeny Zamyatin- Copy
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“ A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
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“ It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ There is nothing in the resolution, as I read it, that contemplates. I agree with the Senator that that is the last thing we would want to do. However, the language of the resolution would not prevent it. It would authorize whatever the Commander in Chief feels is necessary. ”
- James William Fulbright- Copy
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“ In Miami, there were only a couple thousand protesters in a city that is heavily Republican and includes a lot of right-wing terrorists. It was favorable territory for the police. They had the protesters outnumbered 10-1. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
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“ The great danger for American democracy is not from the protesters. That democracy is too poorly realized for us to consider critics — even rebels — as the chief problem. Its fulfillment requires us all, living in an ossified system which sustains too much killing and too much selfishness, to join the protest. ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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