“ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
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“ I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. ”
- Kevin Patterson- Copy
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“ I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new — by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist. ”
- Ralph Ellison- Copy
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“ I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. ”
- Janis Joplin- Copy
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“ I am passionate about liberty. I'm by nature an anarchist, an individualist. ”
- Lina Wertmuller- Copy
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“ A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. ”
- Garrett Hardin- Copy
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“ I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco. ”
- Amy Irving- Copy
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“ I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along. ”
- Charles Manson- Copy
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“ If a man is too right he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Progress comes from people who think against the grain. Without nonconformists, you don't advance. ”
- Saw Ken Wye- Copy
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“ The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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