Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daisy Bates

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

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.

Betty Friedan

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Betty Friedan

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Richard Grimes

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Henry Hampton

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Henrietta Szold

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

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.

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.

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.