Famous Quotes & Sayings

That sounds to me like an activist judge.

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools.

I know, personally, how frustrating it can be as an activist with your eyes open, really seeing what?s happening.

Cindy Sheehan

If peace activists really want to make changes, they have to start putting intense pressure on their elected officials. Of course, everything should be non-violent, because we are trying to create a peaceful world, and violence can't produce peace - no matter what George W. Bush and his buddies say.

I have personally provided hundreds of various documents to people who have requested them. Having started my political career as a citizen activist and having several times been prohibited from addressing government bodies I am especially sensitive to making sure anyone and everyone who wants to address county government has that opportunity. I wish we had a room full of concerned citizens at every meeting.

Justin Sane

I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protests way before I was born. And once I was born, they raised me in that activist environment.

The nation has lost a committed civil and human rights activist whose life and contributions have made a significant difference.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

Arresting a few leaders and activists is not going to stop us from holding the protest rally. Thousands of people will pour out into the streets (Saturday).

Mark Regev

Arresting a few activists in a particular atrocity is simply not enough. This group has to be thoroughly disarmed. If not, they will continue to wreak havoc, murdering innocent civilians and killing the chance for peace.

Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively reshaping the centuries-old definition of marriage.

Ed Rendell

America has lost one of the great civil rights activists of our time. ... She did it with dedication, class, grace and dignity,

Americans United to Protect Social Security - which successfully mobilized to stop Bush's Wall Street Social Security plan - grew directly out of our work to build a nationwide activist coalition to oppose Social Security privatization. This new campaign, organized with a broader issue mandate, will build on and amplify the work of the Campaign for America's Future and many other groups around the issues of cleaning up corruption in government; health care; energy independence and the other 'kitchen table' economic issues Americans care about.

They needed to show their base and activist organizations on the liberal side that they were true-blue, and that explains how they behaved as they did.

It's a sad day for American when a small group of very determined activists are dominating the awards ceremony.

It was astounding. It wasn't the professional activist class; it was grass-roots people who heard about it on TV and radio.

Rebecca Solnit

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

Jonathan Tisch

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

It helps the bear out to not have to keep his mouth closed the whole time. It's kind of unfair to the bear to keep him muzzled. We want it to be fun. We don't want it to be a sport. That's why the animal activists don't know what they are taking about when they come out here and try and go against what we do.

He's truly a renaissance individual for our times, ... I've likened him to a Will Rogers voice in Congress (with) humor (and) common sense. He brought real legislative achievements, working on environmental issues for Southern California ... working on issues for the voters of California by protecting their will against activist judges. He was a well-rounded and dedicated lawmaker.

I've spoken to some lesbian and gay (city) employees and I asked them to be here, but they are concerned that becoming activists will prevent them from getting promotions.

These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.

Activities like that are really good for the city and the activist community.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Todd Akin

Activist judges are trying to institutionalize a lie that marriage is just about big people relationships, but they forget the little people, the whole generation of kids who will struggle with this terrible precedent.

No Republican can win their party's presidential nomination without the institutional backing of Republican power-brokers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Over the past few months, we have seen John McCain back anti-marriage amendments, stump for anti-gay activists running for elected office and demonstrate his dependence on social conservatives.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the activist group associated directly with the Women's Center.

The one-person, one-vote cases are the example of the judiciary being the most activist ever . . . it led to the redrawing of districts for almost every representative institute in the United States, from the smallest town council to congressional delegations.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

It's kind of a low-cost appeal to conservatives outside of Massachusetts. He's looking for things he can do to say to conservatives -- especially Christian evangelical activists -- 'Hey I'm with you,'.

Rebecca MacKinnon

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary.

This is a critical moment for Iran. Iranian activists need to know that American students are ready to help them hold the Iranian regime accountable. We want to help our counterparts in Iran seize the moment and advance their civil rights movement.

Nancy Keenan

They are coming clean on how meaningless his evasive 2003 testimony was. It's now even clearer than before that the far-right activists who've been turning handsprings in celebration of Roberts's nomination are getting exactly what they wanted: a proven activist opponent of personal freedoms like a woman's right to choose.