Quotes by Women Activists

Malala Yousafzai

Greta Thunberg

Yoko Ono

Susan Sontag

Miriam Makeba

Gillian Anderson

Rosa Parks

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

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

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

Charlotte Bunch

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born,

Malala Yousafzai

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

My job here today, our job, is to tell you the one thing you can count on. The one thing I can guarantee you can expect in life is that you will experience the thoroughly unexpected.

In the aftermath of Black Is Beautiful, I began to feel black and blue.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

Rose Pastor Stokes

I am an uncompromising pacifist.... I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Rosika Schwimmer

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

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

We are all guilty and we all have to be part of the solution. We have to do the best we can and then try to do better. It's not about any one person doing everything; it's about all of us doing something and then maybe a little more.

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

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Mary Harris Jones

While the Earth can reclaim and reuse its water, matter, air and soil, it cannot make them from scratch. We must wrap our large appetites and curiosity around the contours and life-giving systems of this world.

Nina Beth Cardin

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate mankind.

Charlotte Forten Grimké

Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Frances Moore Lappé

Whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Today, there is no greater injustice than that suffered by the 4,000 babies, 1,400 of them black, who die on any given day at the hands of abortionists. Friday, we will stand witness in front of the White House and testify to President Obama that while he is living his dreams, those babies will be dying horrible deaths because of the policies he supports. I see the pride on African American faces everywhere, pride in the tremendous breakthrough President Obama represents," added Dr. King. "But I also can close my eyes and see the millions upon millions of young black, white, red, and yellow faces who never had the chance to live, overcome, or witness history.

Failure to adjust to an insane world does not constitute insanity.

You know that all over the world, people fight for their freedom, fight for their rights. Some battle oppressive governments. Others battle oppressive societies. Which battle do you think is harder?

Manal al-Sharif

Paycheck discrimination is not the only obstacle preventing women from having the same economic opportunities as men. As our country continues to focus on our economic recovery, leveling the financial playing field for women must be a priority. According to recent predictions, within a generation, more families will be supported by women than men. If these primary breadwinners earn lower incomes, it won't just affect their families, but also consumer spending and our larger financial growth.

Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside out. Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, even if she does not feel forced.