Robert F. Williams quotes
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“Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.”
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“The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.”
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“We must meet violence with violence.”
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“One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper.”
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“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”
-- Robert F. WilliamsSource : "Negroes with Guns". Book by Robert Franklin Williams, 1998.
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“The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.”
-- Robert F. Williams
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen”
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“When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.”
Source : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.”
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“She who means no mischief does it all.”
Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135
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“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”
Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.
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