Famous quotes by Activists

"It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production"

Susan George, Activist

"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too"

Susan George, Activist

"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things"

Susan George, Activist

"The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis"

Susan George, Activist

"I used to work a lot on food issues, and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate, they got egg on their face a year or two later"

Susan George, Activist

"As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status"

Susan George, Activist

"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt"

Susan George, Activist

"Only around 2% of the Earth's surface is cultivatable land"

Susan George, Activist

"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy"

Susan George, Activist

"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"

Susan George, Activist

"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"

Susan George, Activist

"Subsidize... or lend"

Susan George, Activist

"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency"

Susan George, Activist

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have, if there are no more trees"

Susan George, Activist

"I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water"

Susan George, Activist

"Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children"

Susan George, Activist

"Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace"

Susan George, Activist

"It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics"

Susan George, Activist

"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job"

Susan George, Activist

"If the economy becomes disembodied from society, it can only lead to disaster"

Susan George, Activist

"How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. And it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally"

Susan George, Activist

"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"There is no such thing as a Black middle class"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... None other"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"No such thing as a Dixiecrat"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

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