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Tutu, Desmond. God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time. Doubleday, 2004.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

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Paine, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. London: H. D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press, 1951, pt. 3.

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Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." Die Rote Fahne [The Red Flag], 18 Nov. 1918.

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Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. New York University Press, 2004.

A man has every season, while a woman has only the right to spring.

Jane Fonda

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Fonda, Jane. Quoted in Daily Mail. 13 Sept. 1989.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 14.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 14.

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Weil, Simone. Personal notebook entry. c 1933.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Susan B. Anthony. 14 June 1860.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. Harcourt, Brace And Howe, 1920.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2014.

History is a relay of revolutions.

Saul Alinsky

Rules for Radicals

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Alinksy, Saul. Rules for the Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. Random House, 1971.

To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Marcus Garvey

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Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Vol. 1, The Universal Publishing House, 1923, ch. 2.

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Anthony, Susan B. “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage." 17 June 1873, Rochester, NY, USA.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil

Gravity and Grace

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Weil, Simone. La Pensanteur et la Grace [Gravity and Grace], edited by Gustave Thibon. Plon, 1947.

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Weil, Simone. "To Desire Without an Object." Gravity and Grace, edited by Gustave Thibon, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario van der Ruhr. Routledge, 2002.

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Sontag, Susan. Journal entry. 15 Oct. 1973.

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Phillips, Wendell. Speech in Boston. Massachusetts Antislavery Society meeting. 28 Jan. 1852, The Melodeon, Boston, MA, USA.

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Tutu, Desmond. No Future Without Forgiveness. Doubleday, 1999.

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Chávez, César. "What the Future Holds." Commonwealth Club meeting. 9 Nov. 1984, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Chávez, César. "Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984." The Words of Cesar Chavez. Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

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Robeson, Paul. "The Artist Must Take Sides." National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of the Spanish Refugee Children. 24 June 1937, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Tutu, Desmond. God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time. Doubleday, 2004.