Famous quotes by Activists

"If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is, what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die, when you're suffering"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation"

Jane Addams, Activist

"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled"

Jane Addams, Activist

"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men"

Jane Addams, Activist

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

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day, you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Free love? As if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Service is what life is all about"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone"

Germaine Greer, Activist

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