Famous quotes by Activists

"When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however, everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem"

Whitney M. Young, Activist

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us and each other"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"The idea of equal rights was in the air"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe"

John Burns, Activist

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it"

John Burns, Activist

"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing"

John Burns, Activist

"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country"

John Burns, Activist

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