Famous quotes by Activists

"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

"The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans"

Phyllis Schlafly, 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

"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs"

H. Rap Brown, 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

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

Patricia Ireland, Activist

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

Steven Biko, Activist

"These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties"

Jean Moulin, Activist

"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics"

Emmeline Pankhurst, 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

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

Whitney M. Young, 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

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

Phyllis Schlafly, 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

"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

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

Saul Alinsky, 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

"We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity"

Dorothy Height, 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

"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

"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

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

Julian Bond, Activist

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