Famous quotes by Activists

"There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned, we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time, and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Hence, within the space of two generations, there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands, using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way"

David Korten, Activist

"No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq War"

Phyllis Schlafly, 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

"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago"

Colman McCarthy, Activist

"Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas"

Julian Bond, Activist

"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years"

Susan George, Activist

"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration"

Susan George, Activist

"Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing"

Susan George, Activist

"The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision"

David Korten, Activist

"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy"

David Korten, Activist

"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

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

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude"

Steven Biko, Activist

"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face"

Steven Biko, Activist

"What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

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