Famous quotes by Activists

"Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden, you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care, except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed, and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately, and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza, they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The so-called peace path is not peace, and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

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