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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the
work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Talmud

Related Topic(s): Action; Activism; Progress; Protest; Protest- Civil Disobedience; Struggle

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African American and United States history.

He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

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Related Topic(s): Democracy; Protest

Protest is, in some ways, the source code for democracy.
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Rick Stengel

Republicans want LIVE babies so they can have DEAD soldiers later
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George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.

Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5â€“4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.

Related Topic(s): Non-violence; Protest; Revolutions; Violence

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
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John F. Kennedy

PResident of US, assassinated.

Related Topic(s): Action; Activism; Inaction; Malefaction; Protest; Silence

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Martin Luther King

An American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

Get it straight. I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell raiser.
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Mary Harris (mother) Jones

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1830 - November 30, 1930) was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever and her workshop was destroyed in a fire in 1871, she began working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. She was a very effective speaker, punctuating her speeches with stories, audience participation, humor and dramatic stunts. From 1897 (when she was 60) she was known as Mother Jones and in 1902 she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, upset about the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a Children's March from Philadelphia to the home of then president Theodore Roosevelt in New York.

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Related Topic(s): Protest; Protest- Civil Disobedience; Rebellion

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation:Â [xoËˆliËÉ¬aÉ¬a manËˆdeËla]; 18 July 1918 - 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended the Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the South African National Party came to power in 1948, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was appointed superintendent of the organisation's Transvaal chapter and presided over the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961 in association with the South African Communist Party, leading a sabotage campaign against the apartheid government. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.

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Related Topic(s): Frustration; Protest; Rioting; Violence

"Unfortunately, this is their voice; the voice is destruction, the voice is anger,"

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Nick Mosby

Baltimore City Councilman

Related Topic(s): Bottom Up; Hope Hopefulness; Top Down

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up,
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Studs Terkel

Related Topic(s): Bottom Up; Top Down; Violence

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
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Emma Goldman

Related Topic(s): Authority; Government; Liberty; Power; Responsibility; Top Down

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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Woodrow Wilson

Related Topic(s): Bottom Up; Grassroots; Top Down

We've watered the leaves. We've not watered the roots.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson

An American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader" with 15% of the vote.

Related Topic(s): Dominance; Power; Success; Top Down

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
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Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.[1][2]

Cicero is generally perceived to be one of the most versatile minds of ancient Rome. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero probably thought his political career his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend Atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture.

Related Topic(s): Religion; Top Down

Religion is What Keeps the Poor from Murdering the Rich"

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte (French: NapolÃ©on Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleÉ”Ìƒ bÉ”nï¿½'paÊt], Italian: Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.

Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, Bonaparte rose to prominence under the First French Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'Ã©tat and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him Emperor. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, the French Empire under Napoleon, engaged in a series of conflicts - the Napoleonic Wars - involving every major European power. After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe and Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence through the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.

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Related Topic(s): Bottom Up; Community; Leadership; Oppressed; Oppressors; Top Down

"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."

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Paulo Freire

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Paulo Freire contributed a philosophy of education that came not only from the more classical approaches stemming from Plato, but also from modern Marxist and anti-colonialist thinkers. In fact, in many ways his Pedagogy of the Oppressed may be best read as an extension of, or reply to, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, which emphasized the need to provide native populations with an education which was simultaneously new and modern (rather than traditional) and anti-colonial (not simply an extension of the culture of the colonizer).

Freire is best-known for his attack on what he called the "banking" concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher. The basic critique was not new â€” Rousseau's conception of the child as an active learner was already a step away from tabula rasa (which is basically the same as the "banking concept"), and thinkers like John Dewey were strongly critical of the transmission of mere "facts" as the goal of education. Freire's work, however, updated the concept and placed it in context with current theories and practices of education, laying the foundation for what is now called critical pedagogy.

More challenging is Freire's strong aversion to the teacher-student dichotomy. This dichotomy is admitted in Rousseau and constrained in Dewey, but Freire comes close to insisting that it should be completely abolished.

Related Topic(s): Centralized; Corruption; Top Down

Any kind of centralized power is corrupt

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of corporate capitalism. She first became known internationally for No Logo (1999); The Take, a documentary film about Argentina"ï¿½s occupied factories that was written by Klein and directed by her husband Avi Lewis; and The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics that was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jona's CuarÃ³n, as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times non-fiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in its year. In 2016 Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 Power List. She is a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org.[10]

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Related Topic(s): Animals; Authoritarian; Authority; Bottom Up; Hierarchy; Sympathy; Top Down

It began with a sincere sympathy for recalcitrant animals and flowered into a generalized preference for Liberty over authority, spontaneity over calculation, candor over artifice, friendship over hierarchy, heart over head and nature over culture."

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Marquis De Lafayette

American Revolutionary War

Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Gloucester
Valley Forge
Battle of Barren Hill
Battle of Rhode Island
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Green Spring
Siege of Yorktown

French Revolution

The March on Versailles
Day of Daggers
Champ de Mars massacre

War of the First Coalition
July Revolution

Awards
Order of Saint Louis

Relations

Wife: Marie Adrienne FranÃ§oise de Noailles (1759-1807)
Son: Georges Washington (1779-1849)
Daughters:

Henriette (1776-1778)
Anastasie (1777-1863)
Virginie (1782-1849)

Other work

Politician
Estates General (Auvergne)
Member of the National Assembly
Chamber of Representatives
Chamber of Deputies

Signature

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"The people who knocked these buildings down ...
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George Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he had previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.

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