A Quote by Ernestine Rose

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

Ernestine Rose

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Ernestine Rose
American - Activist
January 13, 1810 - August 4, 1892

Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.

Teresa of Avila

Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.

Ice Cube

The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

Mark Twain

Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.

Rachel Simmons

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Eugene V. Debs

And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

Rick Riordan

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

Walter Savage Landor

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

William Cobbett

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

Sun Tzu

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...

Gudrun Ensslin

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Susan B. Anthony

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.