Radical Quotes - Page 10

• Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Men, Thinking, Rights

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• Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.

  John Schaar

  Men, Roots, America

  John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

  Edward Bond

  Humanness Is, Differences, People

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• Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Hate, America, Professors

  "Feminist Mischief on College Campuses". Phyllis Schlafly, "Phyllis Schlafly Report", Volume 38, No. 9, eagleforum.org. April 2005.

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• Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

  Paul Weyrich

  Country, Islamic, Opportunity

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• The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

  Betty Dodson

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Lying, Squash, Cnn

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• . . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

  Milton Friedman

  Change, Moving, Two

  Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

  Barack Obama

  Loyalty, Leather Jackets, Names

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Past, Men, America

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• Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Support, Enemy

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• ...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

  Bell Hooks

  Life Changing, Moving, Creating

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.194, Routledge

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• People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

  David Fincher

  People, Call Me, Havens

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• To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

  Ani DiFranco

  Two, Splits, Can Do

  Song: Reprieve, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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• I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very
  depressed.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Struggle, Imagination, Survival

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• Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

  Tom Tancredo

  Islam, Century, Foe

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• We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Inspirational, Middle, Centre

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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• And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

  Trip Hawkins

  Trying, Titles, Machines

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• Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Ideas, Community

  Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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• We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

  David Platt

  Sacrifice, Masters, Deserve

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• There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Radical Change, Danger, Harm

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• Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Trying, Harder

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• No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

  Hermann Graf Keyserling

  Radical Change, Crime, Planes

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