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You had better make some noise.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

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Refuse to be an accomplice.

Simone Weil

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Weil, Simone. Personal notebook entry. c 1933.

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To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

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People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true... No. The only tired I was was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

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

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I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

Quoted in The Liberator

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

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Angelou, Maya. "The West Interview: Maya Angelou." Interviewed by Sal Manna. San Jose Mercury News, 22 June 1986.