Famous quotes by Activists

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus"

Emma Goldman, Activist

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

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out"

Jim Hightower, Activist

"The illegal wildlife trade is a symptom of a larger problem. It is a symptom of our society's unsustainable consumption patterns and our failure to live in harmony with the natural world"

Peter Knights, Activist

"We have the power to create a better future for ourselves and for the planet. The question is, what kind of future do we want to create?"

Peter Knights, Activist

"The illegal wildlife trade is a complex problem that requires a multifaceted solution. We need a combination of law enforcement, consumer education, and community engagement to end this destructive trade"

Peter Knights, Activist

"We have the power to change the world for the better. The question is, do we have the will?"

Peter Knights, Activist

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