Famous quotes by Activists

"We need to change our attitudes towards wildlife and recognize that these animals are not commodities to be bought and sold. They are living beings that deserve our respect and protection"

Peter Knights, Activist

"Conservation is not just about saving animals; it's about saving ourselves. We depend on a healthy planet for our survival and well-being"

Peter Knights, Activist

"The illegal wildlife trade is a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise that fuels corruption, undermines the rule of law, and threatens global security"

Peter Knights, Activist

"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous, for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing, evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political, and religious relationship"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Revolution is the festival of the oppressed"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Act quickly, think slowly"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"There is no such thing as security. There never has been"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage, nor the love the enforcement"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children"

Germaine Greer, Activist

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