Famous quotes by Activists

"I shall not grow conservative with age"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving!"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The best protection any woman can have... is courage"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different"

Alice Paul, Activist

"I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality"

Alice Paul, Activist

"Too many terms corrupts politicians, so they only want to be reelected"

Alice Paul, Activist

"Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men"

Jose Marti, Activist

"A grain of poetry suffices to season a century"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women"

Jose Marti, Activist

"It is the duty of man to raise up man"

Jose Marti, Activist

"If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour"

Jose Marti, Activist

"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

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