It takes six simpletons and one zealot to start a movement.

—Anzia Yezierska

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About Anzia Yezierska

Portrait of Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was a Jewish-American novelist. She was born in Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire, the youngest of nine children. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in Manhattan's Lower East Side...

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I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing—righteous indignation.

—Anzia Yezierska

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

—Anzia Yezierska

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How different my own activism would be if every time something happened, I asked myself, "What would I do if this was my family?

—Bushra Rehman

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There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

—Hannah Arendt

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I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.

—Mitch Hedberg

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

—Martin Sheen

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Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

—Alice Walker

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History

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