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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Communism Democracy Freedom Liberation Love Marxism Peace Radicalism Socialism Theology

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

~ Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész Apathy Deception Government Radicalism Tolerance Truth

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

~ Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond Annihilation Death Fanaticism Radicalism War

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.)

~ Sting

Sting Doctrine Dogma Faith Fundamentalism Radicalism Reason

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical, conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

~ John R.w. Stott

John R.w. Stott Christianity Conservatism Faith Radicalism

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.

~ Edmund White

Edmund White Activism Gay Glbt Hate Love Marriage Politics Queer Radicalism Religion Same Sex Marriage

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

~ C.j. Sansom

C.j. Sansom Apocalypse Armageddon Book Of Revelation Cruelty Destruction Fundamentalism Holocaust Mania Orthodoxy Radicalism Religion

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon.]

~ C.j. Sansom

C.j. Sansom Apocalypse Armageddon Book Of Revelation Cruelty Destruction Fundamentalism Holocaust Mania Orthodoxy Radicalism Religion

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

~ Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald 2010 Bernie Sanders Civil Liberties Conservatism Democracy Economics Lloyd Blankfein Politics Radicalism Right Wing Ron Johnson Russ Feingold United States Elections 2010 United States Senate Us Senate Wisconsin 2010 War

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

~ Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin Communism Democracy Freedom Marxism Radicalism Rebellion Revolution Socialism

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

~ Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse Domination Elections Freedom Government Radicalism Representative Democracy Subjugation

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Communism Democracy Freedom Marxism Radicalism Rebellion Revolution Socialism

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

~ Eugene V. Debs

Eugene V. Debs Compassion Freedom Humanity Inequality Inspirational Kinship Radicalism Subversion

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal.

~ Friedrick Engels

Friedrick Engels Communism Democracy Engelism Free Thinker Free Thought Freedom Radical Radicalism Revolution Socialism

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

~ Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Abolition Activism Agitation Dissent Human Rights Liberties Politics Power Radicalism Rights Slavery Suffrage

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Free Thought Independence Partisanship Politics Radicalism

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

~ Jack Newfield

Jack Newfield Activism Liberalism Morality Politics Radicalism

With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.

~ Nadeem Farooq Paracha

Nadeem Farooq Paracha History Jinnah Pakistan Politics Radicalism Zia Ul Haq

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Inequality Neutrality Power Powerlessness Radicalism

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

~ Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Activism Agitation Dissent Liberties Power Radicalism Rights

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

~ Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer Belief Conspiracies Conspiracists Conspiracy Theories Conspiracy Theory Danger Dangerous Minds Fundamentalism Fundamentalists Missions Radicalism Radicals Terror Terrorism Terrorists True Belief True Believers Warfare Zealotry Zealots

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on human values and principles should be central to everything that goes on in universities, not just to the study of Rembrandt or Rimbaud.

~ Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton 2010 2010 Uk Student Protests Academia Arthur Rimbaud Humanities Imagination Justice Margaret Thatcher Public University Radical Politics Radicalism Reactionary Politics Rembrandt Tradition Tuition Fees Uk University

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?

~ David Holdsworth

David Holdsworth Compassion Love Jesus The Christ Joyfulness Justice Kindness Love Story Peace Movement Priesthood Radicalism Recluse Reformation

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Bryant Mcgill Eatinging Food Growth Land Radicalism Revolutionary

Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet--and this is its horror--it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. Evil comes from a failure to think.

~ Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt Evil Good Radicalism

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

~ Hemant Mehta

Hemant Mehta 9 11 Abortion Atheism Books Christian Christianity Ideals Ideology Islam Muslim Radical Radicalism Religion

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

~ Robert Frost

Robert Frost Originality Poetry Radicalism Soul Wisdom Youth

I find myself making excuses for this kind of bullying behavior. Not everyone has been to college, learned trans 101, studied queer theory... But this is unfair to myself and other trans people. I've come to realize that understanding me isn't a matter of being an intellectual. Likewise, one doesn't have to be a radical to respect my feelings. Decent people consider how their comments affect others.

~ Elliot Deline

Elliot Deline Acceptance Queer Radicalism Tolerance Transgender

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

Manal Al-Sharif Extremism Islam Questioning Radical Islam Radicalism Salafi Wahabi

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

~ Sting

Sting Doctrine Dogma Faith Fundamentalism Radicalism Reason

Now I've been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people lose their jobs because of pushing the boundaries too far, but it's an interesting experience. They found they didn't want to stay within those limitations that they were pushing. Once people find they can survive outside the limits, they're much happier. They don't want to feel trapped. So I think we can urge people to push the boundaries as far as they can, and if they get in trouble, fine; that's not too bad if that's what they want to do.

~ Myles Horton

Myles Horton Boundaries Challenging Democracy Forward Progress Pushing Radicalism

If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.

~ Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon Radicalism Revolution

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial

~ Susie Bright

Susie Bright Hollywood Los Angeles Radicalism Revolution

There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for changing the status quo, no matter how slight, can always be considered by someone as too radical, so that the only thoroughgoing escape from the charge of impracticality is never to advocate any change whatever in existing conditions. But to take this approach is to abandon human reason, and to drift in animal- or plant-like manner with the tide of events.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard Change Economics Radicalism Status Quo

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian c

~ C.j. Sansom

C.j. Sansom Apocalypse Armageddon Book Of Revelation Cruelty Destruction Fundamentalism Holocaust Mania Orthodoxy Radicalism Religion

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

~ Lierre Keith

Lierre Keith Activism Environment Environmentalism Radicalism Vegetarianism

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

~ Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill History Insanity Radicalism

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

~ Myles Horton

Myles Horton Funding Independence Radicalism

Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

~ Mango Wodzak

Mango Wodzak Lie Radical Radicalism Truth Truth Telling Truths

The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcely believe what was happening to them. Labor had been so long thought to be the natural and inevitable consequence of necessity and poverty that most people still associated it with slavery and servitude. Therefore any possibility of oppression, any threat to the colonists' hard earned prosperity, any hint of reducing them to the povery of other nations, was especially frightening; for it seemed likely to slide them back into the traditional status of servants or slaves, into the older world where labor was merely a painful necessity and not a source of prosperity.

~ Gordon S. Wood

Gordon S. Wood American Revolution Labor Prosperity Radicalism
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