Famous quotes by Activists

"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Don't trust anyone over thirty"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the Cold War was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest"

Earl Browder, Activist

"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily, in the case of both the USA and the USSR, the growth of the productive forces"

Earl Browder, Activist

"No, the czar did not want us in the schools"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods"

James Larkin, Activist

"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship"

Julian Assange, Activist

"WikiLeaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform"

Julian Assange, Activist

"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you"

Charles Evers, Activist

"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him"

William Kunstler, 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

"Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and no one else trying to hurt America"

Van Jones, Activist

"Nothing succeeds like reports of success"

Sue Sanders, Activist

"People don't follow titles, they follow courage"

William Wells Brown, Activist

"If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"I don't believe gun owners have rights"

Sarah Brady, Activist

"Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be"

Barbara Smith, Activist

"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why"

Sidney Hillman, Activist

"Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive"

Mary Whitehouse, Activist

"Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind"

Francis Wright, Activist

"So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country"

Emma Willard, Activist

"I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

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