Famous quotes by Activists

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

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Christianity is a battle, not a dream"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Truth is powerful and it prevails"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"All in all, this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog"

Whitney M. Young, Activist

"A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal"

John Burns, 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

"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have"

Saul Alinsky, 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

"The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence, and to know how to deal with it"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed, and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world, where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"We Bosniaks would, for sure, fight for integrity of Bosnia"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

Page 13 of 77

See the complete list of activist people