Famous quotes by Activists

"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Independence is happiness"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... No woman has excited passions among women more than I have"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking"

James L. Farmer, Jr., Activist

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there, and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad, he would be a United States Senator"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican"

Michael Moore, Activist

"One on God's side is a majority"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

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