Activist Quotes: Inspiring Voices for Change (Page 2)

"Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information"

"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival"

Ida B. Wells, Activist