top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Activist
"Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a way of solving conflict. It wasn't about biology, but experience."
41
"Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them."
41
"Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you."
40
"Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight."
40
"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
40
"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around."
40
"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
40
"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
40
"Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues."
40
"The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity."
40
"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
40
"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion."
40
"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."
40
"We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other."
40
"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
40
"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."
40
"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption."
40
"Aggression is simply another name for government."
40
"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well."
40
"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
40
"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."
40
"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."
40
"First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy."
40
"I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully."
40
"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."
40
"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
40
"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself."
40
"History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood."
40
bottom of page