Famous quotes by Activists

"Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people"

James L. Farmer, Jr., Activist

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia, no fellow can understand"

John Burns, Activist

"Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"There is a thin line between politics and theatricals"

Julian Bond, Activist

"The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization"

Bruce Kent, Activist

"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy"

Ingrid Newkirk, Activist

"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color"

Malcolm X, Activist

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Nonviolence is fine as long as it works"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"Keep hope alive!"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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