Famous quotes by Activists

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention"

Whitney M. Young, Activist

"The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed"

Whitney M. Young, Activist

"I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State"

John Burns, Activist

"My duty is clear and, at all costs, will be done"

John Burns, Activist

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience"

John Burns, Activist

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves"

John Burns, Activist

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond, but where, with whom, and how?"

John Burns, Activist

"I am only doing now what I have ever done, and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects"

John Burns, Activist

"Don't hustle old people"

John Burns, Activist

"A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Jesus never said anything about homosexuality"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all"

John Burns, Activist

"Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

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