American Activist Quotes

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

The only thing that's really worthwhile is change. It's coming.

Septima Poinsette Clark

We did freak out the honkies. We were feared throughout the Dakotas. I could never figure out why this should have been so. We were always the victims. We never maimed or killed. It was we who died or got crippled.

Mary Brave Bird

Dollars control people. Community currencies connect people.

An African, or in other terms,. a Negro may justly challenge and has an undeniable right to his liberty: Consequently, the practice of slave-keeping, which so much abounds in this Land is illicit.. Liberty is equally as precious to a Black man as it is to a white one, and bondage equally as intolerable to the one as it is to the other.

As I tried to understand my desire to do good and where it came from, I decided I did it because Jesus commanded that we care for the needy. But after I lost the faith, I remembered that I had always tried to do good and help others, and that the desire to act selflessly for others transcends religion. Though I didn't have the words for it at the time, I was beginning to cultivate my Humanistic worldview.

Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.

We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over thirty.

Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews... Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

Khalid Abdul Muhammad

I had a vision—and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened—the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams—and I heard a voice saying, "Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth you must surely bare [sic] it."

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

Hitchcock was more careful about how the birds were treated than he was about me. I was just there to be pecked.

On the filming of The Birds

"Now he took the music of like Mandrill, like "Fencewalk", certain disco records that had funky percussion breaks like The Incredible Bongo Band when they came out with "Apache" and he just kept that beat going. It might be that certain part of the record that everybody waits for—they just let their inner self go and get wild. The next thing you know the singer comes back in and you'd be mad."

Afrika Bambaataa

Nobody insults a colored man or woman in the Tax Receiver's Office, however full it may be.

Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage) so long as it promotes the happiness of the persons married, and the procreation, support, and education of children, and so long as it is founded on the joint free contract of the persons married, and remains under the sanction of the organic society of which those persons are members.

William Batchelder Greene

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

Sarah Louise Delany

The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.

E. Haldeman-Julius

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn't be able to go on. And we have to go on, every single day.

Caragh M. O'Brien

It has always seemed like some profoundly ironic cosmic joke to me that the culture of men who love men is a culture that deifies women and celebrates effeminacy. Wouldn't it make more sense if the culture of men who are sexually fascinated by men actually idolized men and celebrated masculinity?.

It's past due. The United States will never be able to pay us all they owe us. They don't have the money. But they'11 owe it.

Queen Mother Moore

With words, as with bricks, tearing down is easier than building up.

Leonard Roy Frank

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see.