Famous quotes by Activists

"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of \"the Haves\" over the human rights of \"the Have Nots\" is inevitably called into serious question?"

David Korten, Activist

"If I would need to make a prediction, I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible"

David Korten, Activist

"There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"We have to realize we are building a movement"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Black man, you are on your own"

Steven Biko, Activist

"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies"

Daisy Bates, Activist

"The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children, the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"I have also seen it stated that capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified?"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Aggression is simply another name for government"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"So as a prelude, Whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Merely by describing yourself as black, you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live"

Ethel Percy Andrus, Activist

"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is, if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity"

Steven Biko, Activist

"The FBI has always supported big business and big government"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"Trust in God - she will provide"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

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