Famous quotes by Activists

"The First Amendment means everything to me"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day--get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision"

Julian Bond, Activist

"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person"

Julian Bond, Activist

"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year"

Julian Bond, Activist

"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well"

Julian Bond, Activist

"The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980"

Julian Bond, Activist

"Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else"

Julian Bond, Activist

"It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years"

Julian Bond, Activist

"The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

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