Famous quotes by Activists

"We're not inherently anything but human"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"We have tried you, citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"It is the mind that makes the body"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex"

Lucy Stone, Activist

"The Thames is liquid history"

John Burns, Activist

"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process"

Susan George, Activist

"So there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers"

David Korten, Activist

"They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages, could not do?"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be"

Elaine MacDonald, Activist

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Justice and judgment lie often a world apart"

Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist

"If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum"

Elaine MacDonald, Activist

"I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong"

Mother Jones, Activist

"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition"

Thomas Clarkson, Activist

"Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized"

Joseph Sobran, Activist

"In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons"

Ruth First, Activist

"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea"

Medgar Evers, Activist

"Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done"

Russell Means, Activist

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