Famous quotes by Activists

"In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"That gave me strength to go on struggling. I thought, I've dreamed about this since I was little and now I have to work and begin to uphold this doctrine in order to go on, no?"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"In my case, for example, my husband works, I work, I make my children work, so there are several of us working to support the family. And the bosses get richer and richer and the workers' conditions get worse and worse"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"And that everyone who worked had the right to eat and dress well. And the state had to look after old people, the sick, everyone. That seemed very beautiful to me"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"I preferred sewing to bossing little children"

Mother Jones, Activist

"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right"

Joseph Sobran, Activist

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"I am a mystery to myself"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever, then it becomes counterproductive"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures"

Cesar Chavez, Activist

"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area"

James Larkin, Activist

"Slavery and freedom cannot exist together"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development"

Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

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