Famous quotes by Activists

"Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"All the big powers, they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Let's hope you feel better now"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care!"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

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