Famous quotes by Activists

"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

"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity"

Kate Millett, Activist

"I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics"

Kate Millett, Activist

"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion"

Kate Millett, Activist

"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life, in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence, politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being"

Kate Millett, Activist

"It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves"

Kate Millett, Activist

"I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof"

Kate Millett, Activist

"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

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