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Quotes by Activist
"I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice."
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
7
"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
7
"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."
7
"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."
7
"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
7
"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."
7
"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
7
"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"
7
"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
7
"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
7
"We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us."
7
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people."
7
"We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up."
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"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
7
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive."
7
"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
7
"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
6
"When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken."
6
"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."
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