Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jim Hightower

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Jim Hightower

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Herbert Samuel

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Herbert Samuel

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Herbert Samuel

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Benjamin Tucker

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Susan B. Anthony

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

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.

Charles Evers

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Dorothy Day

We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.

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.

James Brady

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Robert Purvis

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Phyllis Schlafly

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Patricia Ireland

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.