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• Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will – because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens.

  Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilians, Radicals

• I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

  Emma Bonino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Radicals

• The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Patriotism, Radicals, Despair

• Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

  Woodrow Wilson

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  Tags in Radicals, Met

• Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

  James A. Garfield

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  Tags in Radicals, Nobody

• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy, Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Radicals, Liberals, Conservatives, Solidarity, Change/Growth

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Radicals, Majorities, Minorities

• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  James A. Garfield

  Tags in Radicals

• Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Tags in Conservatives, Radicals

• The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

  Angela Davis

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Radicals

• Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Tags in Radicals, Moderation

• I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning — organize.

  Joe Hill

  Tags in Radicals

• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

  Mark Twain

  Tags in Radicals, Conservatives

• By ‘radical,’ I understand one who goes too far; by ‘conservative,’ one who does not go far enough; by ‘reactionary,’ one who won’t go at all.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tags in Radicals, Conservatives

• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.

  Leo Rosten

  Tags in Radicals, Conservatives

• Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

  Albert Camus

  Tags in Rebellion, Radicals

• It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Tags in Conservatives, Rebellion, Radicals

• The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

  Audre Lorde

  Tags in Radicals, Rebellion, Human Rights, Change/Growth