Famous quotes by Activists

"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves"

Ethel Percy Andrus, Activist

"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies"

Daisy Bates, Activist

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression"

Malcolm X, Activist

"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything"

Malcolm X, Activist

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say, I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface, everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently until the entire fabric is doomed"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Failure is impossible"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it"

Alice Paul, Activist

"Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses"

Maggie Kuhn, Activist

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