Famous quotes by Activists

"On the surface, we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"There are few retreats that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent"

Bruce Kent, Activist

"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot in which they were born and nurtured"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"People learn to lead because they care about something"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing"

Mother Jones, Activist

"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please"

Mother Jones, Activist

"I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism, but however unfavorable, I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair"

Angelina Grimke, Activist

"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

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