Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Activists - Page 17

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage. People had every reason to doubt my sincerity, but most of them didn't. And - given my history, it was more than I could've hoped for - forgiveness and the benefit of the doubt. It still amazes me.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Wangari Maathai was a mighty woman, creative, fearless, and full of love.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

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

I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama's White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

North Korea cannot change because its people don't realize that there is an alternative to their suffering.

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.

I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies' cries.

I'm an actor; I hire out.

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

People say, 'Dream big!' - but you have to think about the logistics. It's not just coming up with a great idea; it's how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

In the same way we all have a right to bear arms, we all have a right to live.

Ladakh has changed a lot. Flash floods are common, followed by drought.

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

I am a mystery to myself.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

I was in India as scientist doing post-doctoral research for about four months. I fell in love with India.

Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

There is no question that automation is - and has been since the start of the Industrial Revolution - displacing workers and creating disruption within the economy and labor market.

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

The big difference between animal liberation activists and other so-called 'terrorists' is the targets; no innocent victims are ever targeted in animal lib campaigns. If you are not abusing and exploiting animals, there is no need to fear for one's safety.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

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

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.