Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Acker

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Kathy Acker

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Kathy Acker

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kate Millett

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

Kate Millett

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Kate Millett

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Patricia Ireland

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

George Rockwell

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

Michael Scott

If the cameras stopped rolling today, their hearts would still be over there.

George Ripley

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

Such hopes are, however, tempered by years of disillusioning memories, which remind us all that it takes two sides to make a peace.

Dorothy Day

My radical associates were the ones who were in the forefront of the struggle for a better social order where there would not be so many poor.

David Crane

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Julian Bond

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

Jim Hightower

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

George Rockwell

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

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.

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.