Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Activists - Page 20

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.

We must celebrate difference until difference doesn't make a difference in the way we treat each other.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

From teaching, the NHS and social care, to cleaning and building, the U.K. economy depends heavily on E.U. workers. Under a Canada-style deal for the U.K./E.U., the ability for E.U. workers to live and work freely in the U.K. would stop.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

This is not going away. At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow.

For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end.

The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leanings. The tea party has no political leaning. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

We don't want people working in fast-food stands. We want them back in the steel mills.

Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Hong Kong people do not keep silent and I urge people around the world to keep their eyes on Hong Kong and the passion with which people are fighting for basic rights. We never give up and we will not be silenced.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

Muslims who convert to Christianity are not protected. That carries capital punishment. He would be given the opportunity to repent, and the Sharia court would need to determine if he was really a Muslim in the first place, did he know what he was doing, and once all of that has been determined, there is capital punishment for that in Islam.

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

For a long time, Americans have bought into the meritocracy, the American dream ideal. But when we watched banksters completely destroy our economy and get bailed out while ordinary homeowners were intentionally left to have their homes seized and lives destroyed, it kind of made people think.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Every religion curbs women rights to some extent. Some countries acted against religions and put a ban on wearing hijab, which was also a violation of human rights.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.