Famous quotes by Activists

"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I just have that sense, this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place, is because Ronald Reagan was running for President"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or Democratic constituents"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters"

John Burns, Activist

"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman"

John Burns, Activist

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour; for sure, if slow, progress"

John Burns, Activist

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance"

John Burns, Activist

"My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come"

John Burns, Activist

"The way to be a man, if you're a little boy, is to be willing to throw your weight around"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle, regardless of the chances for success"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way"

John Burns, Activist

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