Famous quotes by Activists

"What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The Afro-American is not a bestial race"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... So I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job, it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable, the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment, when the tables are turned, is a matter of small moment when the Negro woman is the accusing party"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied, and the butchery of negroes should have ceased"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"We have tried you, good people of the public, and we have found you wanting"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"By working hard, we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45,. We paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

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