Famous quotes by Activists

"I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Suffrage is the pivotal right"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"To some degree, it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then, but they were not roses"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools, they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Join the union, girls, and together say, Equal Pay for Equal Work"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

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