4587 quotes by activists for you to enjoy

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. Malcolm X

Man King Sit White Negroes Beside Restaurant Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Give Segregated Had Years Goal Same Them Who Dr Chance Luther

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. Malcolm X

You Revolution Nonviolent Peaceful Thing

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. Malcolm X

You Equality Dog Club Must Rifle

If ballots won't work, bullets will. Malcolm X

Work Will Bullets Ballots

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. Marian Wright Edelman

Best Day You Every Day Win Every Obligated Trying Keep

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. Mary Harris Jones

God Women Made Thieves Almighty Rockefeller God Almighty Ladies Gang

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. Medgar Evers

Change Like Get Republicans Need

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. Noam Chomsky

People Other Strike Easier Easily Weapon Only Boston Attacking Could Drones Days Also Course Terrorist Been Yemen Target Very Targets Just After Which Who Village Peaceful Marathon Two

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. Noam Chomsky

Good History You Memories Law Remember Innocent Innocence Once Guilty Presumption Some No Point Point Concept Until Court Proven Exist Up Did May Used Deep Even Now Bringing

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Noam Chomsky

Culture People Pressure System Constant Propaganda Only Consume Feel Over Make Role Place Decisions Popular Popular Culture Helpless

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us. Noam Chomsky

Truth Democracy History Class Training Events Minority Ideology Lying Hidden Distortion Seek Facilities Through Veil Provides Western Privileged Current Behind Leisure Which Interest Us Presented

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. Noam Chomsky

Toothpaste Television Run Industries Sell Same Elections

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Noam Chomsky

Capitalism Injustice Socialism Ideology Radical Preserved Liberal Libertarian System Classical Emerging Development New Ideals Industrial Message Were Sustain Order Social Social Order Extended Humanist Enlightenment

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. Noam Chomsky

Freedom Democracy Survival Valued Possibly More Terminal Ideals Existence Than Essential May Human Just Human Existence Phase

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media. Noam Chomsky

Democracy Control Say States System Rigidity Through Indoctrination Mass Mass Media Industrial Ideological Unusual Might Media United United States Among

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student. Randi Weingarten

Education Great Perseverance Learning Creativity Problem Public Education Important Thinking Those Out Critical Critical Thinking Solving Cross Purposes Student Most Qualities Testing Curiosity Problem-Solving The Most Important Public Measure Teaching Standardized Many Brings

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities. Sharan Burrow

Dignity Poison Stripping Destroying Splitting Inequality Families Communities Livelihood

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar. Sojourner Truth

Time You Liar Will Nothing Claims Kind Promise Recollect Promising Give Thus Like Terrible Privilege Being Fulfillment

The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills. Steven Biko

Spiritual Oppression Problem Poverty Exploitation White Enough Complex Has-Been Bad Deliberate More Fact Supremacy Coupled Tied Makes Material Been Up Want Apartheid Much Capitalist

Quotes by Activists