Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

William Kunstler

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

William Kunstler

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

David Korten

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah Brady

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

Sarah Brady

We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily.

Sarah Brady

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

Sarah Brady

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Charles Evers

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

Harry Bridges

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.

Harry Bridges

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

Wes Boyd

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.

Gloria Steinem

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.