Famous quotes by Activists

"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression"

Angela Davis, Activist

"We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs"

James L. Farmer, Jr., Activist

"You must stand for free speech in the streets"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"In Georgia, where children work day and night in the cotton mills, they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage, work out their own salvation"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I abide where there is a fight against wrong"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I have always advised men to read"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Not all the coal that is dug warms the world"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"You can never stop, and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth, and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Well for one, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the US, which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime"

Angela Davis, Activist

"But at the same time, you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life"

Angela Davis, Activist

"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation, and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product, or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation"

Angela Davis, Activist

"It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems"

Angela Davis, Activist

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