Famous quotes by Activists

"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

"The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this, we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down"

Huey Newton, Activist

"Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up"

Huey Newton, Activist

"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images"

Huey Newton, Activist

"There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people"

Huey Newton, Activist

"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning"

Huey Newton, Activist

"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people"

Huey Newton, Activist

"I have the people behind me, and the people are my strength"

Huey Newton, Activist

"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny"

Huey Newton, Activist

"We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism"

Huey Newton, Activist

"I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness"

Huey Newton, Activist

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life"

Jane Addams, Activist

"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled"

Jane Addams, Activist

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach and how we live"

Jane Addams, Activist

"The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself"

Jane Addams, Activist

"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical, the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair, but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free"

Emma Goldman, Activist

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