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Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. Dial Books, 1992, ch. 8.

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Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 14.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Immediate Issue." Young India, 5 Jan. 1922.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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Steinem, Gloria. "Erotica vs. Pornography." Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. Originally published c. 1978, publisher unknown.

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Douglass, Frederick. Speech at the World's Columbian Exposition. World's Columbian Exposition. 25 Aug. 1893, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. Quoted in From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature, written by Randall Fuller. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, Part 2. London: H.D. Symonds, 1795.

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Paine, Thomas. "The Age of Reason, Part the Second. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology (1795)." Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert. Yale University Press, 2014.

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Douglass, Frederick. "The Present and Future of the Colored Race in America." 15 May 1863, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

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Kennedy, Florynce. "The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq." Ms. Magazine, Mar. 1973.

The best way to get inside city hall is to make noise on the street.

Bhairavi Desai

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Desai, Bhairavi. Quoted in "Thin Yellow Line: The Taxi Driver's Advocate." Written by Lizzie Widicombe. The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 4. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1777.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number IV, September 12, 1777." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

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Hellman, Lillian. Letter to HUAC. 19 May 1952.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. Tomorrow is Now. Harper & Row, 1963.

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Malcolm X. "The Black Revolution." Militant Labor Forum. 8 Apr. 1964, New York City, NY, USA.

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Malcolm X. "The Black Revolution." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

Someone ought to do it, so why not I?

Annie Besant

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Besant, Annie. Annie Besant: An Autobiography. London: Unwin, 1893.

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Besant, Annie. From Atheism to Theosophy: The Autobiography of Annie Besant. Mt. San Antonio College, 2020.

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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

John Lewis

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Lewis, John [@repjohnlewis]. "We may not have chose the time, but the time has chosen us." Twitter, 11 July 2016, 4:21 p.m., twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/752505298326319104

This is a beautiful country.

John Brown

John Brown's last words before his execution.

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Brown, John. Last written words. 2 Dec. 1859.

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Keller, Helen. "The Story of My Life." Ladies' Home Journal, 1902.

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Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Signet, 2010, ch. 22.