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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking f...

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How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary soc...

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In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that ju...

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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one b...

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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...

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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

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It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should...

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Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither dep...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every dece...

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[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fana...

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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the po...

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To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that i...

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More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistak...

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Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.")

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ rev...

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What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Ma...

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Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and u...

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