Famous quotes by Activists

"There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"We cannot suppose, therefore, that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"I trust the time is coming when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I'm really fascinated and you know, I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques, and why in these practices language is being used in another way"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I mean, once work's out there, it's meant to be used"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive"

Ingrid Newkirk, Activist

"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Traveling around, I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government, and you know it's really the talk for those who have"

Kathy Acker, Activist

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