Famous quotes by Activists

"In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"No person has the right to rain on your dreams"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Education is a precondition to survival in America today"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"To the moralist, prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"When we can't dream any longer, we die"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors, will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"There is no hope, even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics"

Emma Goldman, Activist

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