Famous Quotes & Sayings

What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Jack Herer

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

Jack Herer

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

Jack Herer

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Julian Bond

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Julian Bond

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

Julian Bond

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Stokely Carmichael

We wanted to say that this is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and that we're not ever to be caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power.

Julian Bond

We quickly became aware that this was bigger than we thought and that we would have to dig deeper and do more. And we're still doing it today.

James Brady

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

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.

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.

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.

Daisy Bates

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

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.

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.

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.

Anna Howard Shaw

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

Anna Howard Shaw

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Angelina Grimke

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.