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«Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.»

Author: James Cone | About: Anger, Humor | Keywords: arm, complement, complemented, complements, consumed, declare, empower, empowered, empowering, empowers, fury, left and right, opposition, oppression, prevents, the left, uncompromising

«I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.»

Author: William Lloyd Garrison (Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist) | About: Truth | Keywords: earnest, equivocate, excuse, harsh, harsher, heard, inch, in earnest, justice, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, uncompromising

«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.»

Author: William Lloyd Garrison (Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist) | Keywords: alarm, babe, Cause for Alarm, earnest, equivocate, extricate, extricated, gradually, harsh, inch, in earnest, moderate, moderately, on fire, ravisher, rescue, rescues, rescuing, retreat, uncompromising, urge, with moderation

«I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.»

Author: Bette Davis | Keywords: disagreeable, intractable, larger-than-life, larger, monomaniacal, ofttimes, peppery, tactless, uncompromising, volatile

«A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.»

Author: George Santayana (Humanist, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Freedom | Keywords: in full, morally, uncompromising

«However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.»

Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | Keywords: admire, causes, however, methods, motives, noblest, opponent, serve, serve up, serve well, sympathise, this method, uncompromising, violent, Worthies, worthiest, worthy

«Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.»

Author: Woodrow T. Wilson (President) | Keywords: closeted, closets, come out of the closet, luxury, recluse, the closet, uncompromising

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