Famous quotes by Activists

Small: We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment
Wangari Maathai
"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
Small: Its a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made
Wangari Maathai
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
Small: When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started
Wangari Maathai
"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"
Wangari Maathai, Activist
Small: We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable
Stokely Carmichael
"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy"
Stokely Carmichael, Activist
Small: I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves
Harriet Tubman
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"
Harriet Tubman, Activist
Small: In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change
Nhat Hanh
"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change"
Nhat Hanh, Activist
Small: I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing qu
"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
Small: I cant talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experienc
"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
Small: The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Amer
"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year"
Phyllis Schlafly, Activist
Small: In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession
"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession"
Phyllis Schlafly, Activist
Small: Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature
"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"
Phyllis Schlafly, Activist
Small: Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship
"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship"
Phyllis Schlafly, Activist
Small: Surely these women wont lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a yea
"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
Small: By working hard we could make an average of about 5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own
"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
Small: The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessa
"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"
David Wilmot, Activist
Small: The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to prote
Ida B. Wells
"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
Small: Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms
"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms"
Wendell Phillips, Activist
Small: If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause
"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause"
Wendell Phillips, Activist
Small: The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness
"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness"
Julia Ward Howe, Activist
Small: Freedom is never given it is won
"Freedom is never given; it is won"
A. Philip Randolph, Activist
Small: Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage"
Wendell Phillips, Activist
Small: The appeal to the white mans pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscie
Ida B. Wells
"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
Small: Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has bee
Ida B. Wells
"Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter"
Ida B. Wells, Activist
Small: Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains
Simon Wiesenthal
"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
Small: I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that w
"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past"
Julia Ward Howe, Activist
Small: I take refuge in my books
"I take refuge in my books"
Julia Ward Howe, Activist
Small: I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia
"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia"
Julian Bond, Activist
Small: We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there wont be a worl
"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
Small: The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number
"The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number"
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist
Small: The essence of pleasure is spontaneity
Germaine Greer
"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity"
Germaine Greer, Activist