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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need publ

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer

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Future
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Eric Hoffer
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

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Conformity & Nonconformity
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We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. – Eric Hoffer

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Freedom
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Other Quotes from
Protest
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Protest

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it. – Art Buchwald

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Protest

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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Protest

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I – Muhammad Ali

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Protest

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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my fathers hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. – Charles Kuralt

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movies

Envy slays itself by its own arrows. – Author Unknown

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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. – Bertrand Russell

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work