Famous quotes by Activists

"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life"

Jose Marti, Activist

"In truth, men speak too much of danger"

Jose Marti, Activist

"He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together, You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Charm is a product of the unexpected"

Jose Marti, Activist

"None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington, I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"Few people know how to be old"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I was born in revolution"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer"

Angela Davis, Activist

"The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people"

Angela Davis, Activist

"What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other"

Angela Davis, Activist

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