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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism

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Nkrumah, Kwame. Consciencism. Monthly Review Press, 1964, ch. 2.

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For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone

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"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Ron Winston, season 1, episode 22, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1960.

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The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men.

The Twilight Zone

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"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Ron Winston, season 1, episode 22, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1960.

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer

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Mailer, Norman. "She Thought the Russians Was Coming." Esquire, 1 June 1960.

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Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom.
All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.

Irving Layton

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Layton, Irving. "Aphs." The Whole Bloody Bird: Obs, Aphs & Pomes. McClelland & Stewart, 1969.

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The foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance… Various guarantees create zones of privacy.

William O. Douglas

Grisworld v. Connecticut

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Griswold v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 381, 7 June 1965, pp. 479–531. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/.

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There was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 87.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Andre Malraux

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Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total Obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert

Dune

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Herbert, Frank. Dune. Chilton Books, 1965. Originally published in Analog Magazine, Dec. 1963 - Feb. 1964.

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The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Pope John XXIII

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Pacem in Terris

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Pope John XXIII. "Pacem in Terris [Peace on Earth]." Litterae Encyclicae [Encyclical Letter]. 11 Apr. 1963, pt. 4.

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The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing—one person, one vote.

William O. Douglas

Gray v. Sanders

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Gray v. Sanders. United States Reports, vol. 372, 17 June 1963, pp. 368-372. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/368/.

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Culture shock is relatively mild in comparison with a much more serious malady that might be called "future shock." Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Alvin Toffler

The Future as a Way of Life

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Toffler, Alvin. "The Future as a Way of Life." Horizon Magazine, Summer 1965.

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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval... The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.

J.C.R. Licklider

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Licklider, J. C. R. "Man-Computer Symbiosis." IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, Mar. 1960.

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"Wait" has almost always meant "Never."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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