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"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing"
David Korten, Activist
"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization"
David Korten, Activist
"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy"
David Korten, Activist
"This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation"
Florence Kelley, Activist
"On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home"
Florence Kelley, Activist
"There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations"
David Korten, Activist
"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest"
David Korten, Activist
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts, and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital, the wife has no right"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"From the cradle to the grave, she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in?"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books"
Eldridge Cleaver, Activist
"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades"
Florence Kelley, Activist
"We've got to work to save our children, and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it"
Dorothy Height, Activist
"We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity"
Dorothy Height, Activist
"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"And understand: class differences will not save you"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"Too much agreement kills a chat"
Eldridge Cleaver, Activist
"If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America"
Eldridge Cleaver, Activist
"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
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