Famous quotes by Activists

"See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society"

David Korten, Activist

"But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization"

David Korten, Activist

"No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat!"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money, you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue"

David Korten, Activist

"Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves, in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth!"

David Korten, Activist

"Global competition is about winners and losers"

David Korten, Activist

"But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living"

David Korten, Activist

"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics"

David Korten, Activist

"More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment"

David Korten, Activist

"If you look internationally over the last 50 years, there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty"

David Korten, Activist

"Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens, what are they?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"All the gods are dead except the god of war"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people"

David Korten, Activist

"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation"

David Korten, Activist

"Money is a mechanism for control"

David Korten, Activist

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