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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
- Behave
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
- Distressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
- Conscription
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- Nov 07, 2020
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
- Democratic State
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020