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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked."

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"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind."

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Bernard Lewis Historian
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"I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was in favor of helping the Iraqis, and most specifically Ahmad Chelebi and the Kurdish leadership to set up an independent government of free Iraq. I think that would have been the right thing to do."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."

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"I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another."

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