Famous quotes by Activists

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Understand that legal and illegal are political and often arbitrary categorizations; use and abuse are medical or clinical distinctions"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

"Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit"

George Ripley, Activist

"Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since"

Alice Paul, Activist

"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

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