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Agitation Quote by David Hume

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“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”

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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Crystal Eastman

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...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are…

Emmeline Pankhurst

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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to…

Florence Kelley

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“If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.”

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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;…

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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges…

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“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our…

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Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

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Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

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Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be…

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