Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucretia Mott

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.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

Michael Scott

When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

David Korten

The fact is that these bankers and traders are taking claims of wealth out of the system; they are not doing any productive work.

Michael Scott

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

Many teachers are aware of the importance of video games to schoolchildren but are unsure of how they can be used and examined effectively in school.

Bobby Seale

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

Florence Kelley

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

Florence Kelley

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

Florence Kelley

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

Maggie Kuhn

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

Victoria Woodhull

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

Angela Davis

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

Barbara Smith

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

Barbara Smith

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

Olympia Brown

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

Saul Alinsky

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Samuel Gompers

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Samuel Gompers

We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

Alice Paul

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.

Alice Paul

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

Kathy Acker

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Kathy Acker

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Constance Baker Motley

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Daisy Bates

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.