Famous quotes by Activists

"If we are to better the future, we must disturb the present"

Catherine Booth, Activist

"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing"

Giuseppe Mazzini, Activist

"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion"

Carrie Chapman Catt, Activist

"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value"

Millicent Fawcett, Activist

"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source"

Lucretia Mott, Activist

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum"

Frances E. Willard, Activist

"Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living"

George Lincoln Rockwell, Activist

"Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being"

Malcolm X, Activist

"My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world"

Malcolm X, Activist

"Stumbling is not falling"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against"

Malcolm X, Activist

"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education"

Malcolm X, Activist

"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Most women are one man away from welfare"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Law and justice are not always the same"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is, what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die, when you're suffering"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

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