English Activist Quotes

Stephen Fry

Peter Benenson

George Monbiot

Tommy Robinson

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

As absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.

Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentially secret. It is the perfect crime.

Beatrix Campbell

On the Extinction Rebellion movement:

This is a movement devoted to disruptive, nonviolent disobedience in protest against ecological collapse.

We need strong leadership, not cowards who are begging petrol dollars and wanting a block Islamic vote. We need a leader not an appeaser. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Stand up for what u believe. Never be intimidated by anyone #english #nosurrender.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

Gerrard Winstanley

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

Cicely Saunders

It has been well said … that there are steps on the way to the summit of Dietetic Reform, and, if only one step be taken, yet that single step will be not without importance and without influence in the world. The step, which leaves for ever behind it the barbarism of slaughtering our fellow-beings, the Mammals and Birds, is, it is superfluous to add, the most important and most influential of all.

Howard Williams (humanitarian)