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Sides

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Angela Davis
Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar

"I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both."

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Oscar Romero
Oscar Romero Archbishop, Activist

"When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own."

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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Sides

"There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all."

Real Spiritual Sides
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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere."

Sides Sorrow Despair
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Woody Guthrie Singer-Songwriter
Sides

"Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me."

Opportunity Wall Sides
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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."

Remember Sides Weakness
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Sides Crush Oppression
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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."

Eye Firsts Sides
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is."

Waiting Laughing Sides
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Freda Adler Criminologist, Sociologist
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"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."

May Sides Courage
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on."

Writing Stories Sides
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Patti Smith Musician
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"I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side."

Artist Support Sides
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