Famous quotes by Activists

"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years, it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The Roman Catholic Church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"I am an artist and a political being as well"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Courage is always the surest wisdom"

Wilfred Grenfell, Activist

"We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"As a nation, we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"When I recall my own path of life, I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I got politics and economics moving, and then others took over"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"There's something contagious about demanding freedom"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"You have riches and freedom here, but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?"

Lech Walesa, Activist

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