Famous quotes by Activists

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win"

Michael Moore, Activist

"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them"

Michael Moore, Activist

"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Power is every stealing from the many to the few"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy, paying the highest price in the struggle"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"We are the women men warned us about"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom, which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

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