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No matter how much preparation, education, and counseling, sixteen-year old children are not ready for childbirth.

— Pat Parker Gay Parenting, Or, Look Out, Anita (1987)

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People, get ready! If you are racist, sexist, classist, or homophobic, my child is going to think you are strange.

Gay Parenting, Or, Look Out, Anita (1987)

In order for revolution to be possible, and revolution is possible, it must be led by the poor and working class people of this country.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

We must also define our friends and enemies based on their stand on imperialism.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

Before and after armed revolution there must be education, and analysis, and struggle. If not, and even if so, one will be faced with coups, counterrevolution and revision.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

The other illusion is that revolution is neat. It's not neat or pretty or quick. It is a long dirty process.

Speech at BASTA Conference (1980)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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