Famous quotes by Activists

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners, to get them onto the board of Hoover"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Once you get the right image, the details aren't that important"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Never impose your language on people you wish to reach"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

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