106 Quotes About Activists


  • Author Elizardo Sanchez
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    We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

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  • Author Eric Stern
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    No Republican can win their party's presidential nomination without the institutional backing of Republican power-brokers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Over the past few months, we have seen John McCain back anti-marriage amendments, stump for anti-gay activists running for elected office and demonstrate his dependence on social conservatives.

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  • Author Eric Stern
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    Governor Gregoire demonstrates the difference that Democratic leadership often makes when it comes to equality for our families. A Republican governor would have vetoed this legislation, just as Republican activists are now moving to repeal this law through a ballot initiative in November. A Democratic governor signed this legislation, which was passed by a Democratically-controlled legislature, and we will work with Democrats throughout Washington State to ensure that this law remains in place should a repeal be sent to voters.

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  • Author Jacob Sullum
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    What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore the government has to coercively change what they want.

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  • Author Krishna Sitaula
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    The policemen followed them in a white van and one of them fired at the activists from close distance, but they managed to escape unhurt.

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  • Author Larry Sabato
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    There is nothing the Democratic leaders can do. It's the Democratic activists who are whining and complaining who could help themselves by shutting their mouths. They're distracting attention away from what the election will be and should be about - the president and Congress. They're just giving the press something to write about.

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  • Author Laura Schlessinger
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    Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

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  • Author Mathew Staver
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    Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.

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