Activist Quotes: Inspiring Voices for Change (Page 2)

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Freedom is never given; it is won"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

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