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What engenders hatred towards the Sharia? When people find their basic needs are not being met, then people just see it as unfair.
The Christians and Jews can live side by side with the Muslims, as they did in the heart of Europe for over 800 years in Andalusia.
When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
I joined the Indian Police Service as a tough woman, a woman with indefatigable stamina, because I used to run for my tennis titles, etc.
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.
Actually, as a Muslim, we believe sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God. And therefore, we believe in submitting to the commands of God.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
I am a Gemini. We have split personalities. While at work, I am fully in it. I can be attached yet very detached. I have no feelings of remorse.
The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.
What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.
Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
If the Sharia was to be implemented elsewhere, and, as part of its foreign policy, it would remove the operators in the way of preventing the Sharia.
History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.
I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.
You cannot just exercise your rights and get away without performing your responsibilities. Understand that it should not be about 'me' but rather 'us.'
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.
I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village.
The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.
It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.
Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?
I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.