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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.
You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.
I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.
All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.
The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.
You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.
Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.
Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government.
You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.
In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.
The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.