American Activist Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Malcolm X

Thomas Paine

Langston Hughes

Susan Sontag

Charles Lindbergh

Gillian Anderson

I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Charlotte Bunch

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you. So many members of the lesbian and gay community feel they have had violence done to them by religious groups that it is very difficult to evangelize any members of our community. But we do evangelize.

Robert Ingersoll was humorist, iconoclast and lover of humanity.
It is said that the difference between man and the lower animals is that man has the ability to laugh.
When you laugh you relax, and when you relax you give freedom to muscles, nerves and brain-cells. Man seldom has use of his reason when his brain is tense. The sense of humor makes a condition where reason can act.
Ingersoll knew that he must make his appeal to man's brain.

Alice Moore Hubbard

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

Marriages might be made in Heaven, but too often they are consummated right here on earth.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

Florynce Kennedy

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I'm the parent and you're the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesn't mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad

The vast majority of lameness in the domestic horse world cannot be understood properly or completely without considering the effects of abuse. Although many might argue to the contrary, most lameness among horses is really more an issue of ignorance, violence, and complicity than is of veterinary medicine; veterinar scools, clinics, and slaughterhouses are simply the processing stations that have to deal with it. What is not an issue here are injuries that stem from unfortunate accidents, where the horse enthusiasts made an honest miscalculation or innocently followed the bad advice of someome they trusted. What is of concern is abuse that results from neglect and bad intent.

All ye having business before this honorable Court draw nigh, give your attention and ye shall be heard. No, no. Draw nigh and bend over. They're gonna rape you up the butt!

Being trans in some ways is very similar to being an atheist, in that some people don't grasp it. People that come from different backgrounds just [say], What do you mean you don't believe in God? They don't get you. To them [religion] is just so obvious, and I feel like I keep on having that with gender, also. Some people just have in their mind very firm ideas of gender, and they just can't get it into their head.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

Phyllis Schlafly

My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace.

William Monroe Trotter

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

Not all wars have casualties.... Some struggles between old and new ideas, some battles between ways of seeing have only victors. Not all dying is the physical self.

Toni Cade Bambara

A people who are not convinced of their uniqueness and value will perish.