Militant Quotes - Page 5

• There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Revolution, Substitutes

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.159, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Exercise, Simple

  "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh, Pocket Books, (p. 193), October 1992.

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• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Men, London

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Mistake, Evil, Islam

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• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights.

  Fred Phelps

  Religious, America, Rights

  Letter to Boris Yeltsin, 1997.

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• If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Goal, Movement

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Character, Justice

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.

  Jonathan M. Wainwright

  Peace, Military, Fighting

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• Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

  Bill Moyers

  Ideas, Facts, Life Is

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• We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

  Otto Schily

  Leader, Violence, States

  "Call for Europe to form anti-riot force" by Rory Carroll and Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. August 05, 2001.

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• To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.

  Daniel Guerin

  Eye, Moon, Reality

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• I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Church

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• I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, Government, Texas

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• For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

  Nathan Huggins

  Legacy, Slavery, Afros

  Nathan Irvin Huggins (1995). “Revelations: American History, American Myths”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

  Edward Abbey

  Rights, Rocks, Black

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Queens, Powerful

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• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Book, Winter

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• In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Truth, Discovery, Self

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• To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

  Morton Feldman

  Attitude, Should Have, Ideas

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• He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Fashion, Jesus

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• It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Expression, Political

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• Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

  Ellen G. White

  Temptation, Church, Atonement

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• There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, Community, Development

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.82, Beacon Press

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