4598 quotes by activists for you to enjoy

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy People Dangerous Sometimes Opportunity Dictatorship Think About More Gives Could Parody Blatant Because Doing Than Anything Avoid

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi

Hope Rights Champion Human Rights Shall Looked Protect Always Up Human

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. Betty Friedan

Women Enemy Men Fellow Real Real Enemy Victims Themselves

'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study. Bhagat Singh

Yourself Mind Face Argument Favor Corridor Advanced Study Arm Cry Enable Cult Opposition Began Your

I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever. Bobby Sands

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. Bobby Sands

Freedom Ghetto Spirit Only Boy Revolutionary Nationalist Repression Creates Working-Class

Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent. Cesar Chavez

People Innocent Cheated Without Always Union

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength. Cesar Chavez

Work Strength Needs Together Dignity People Problems Own Despair Solve Work Together Themselves Depth Organize Fill Need

To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men! Cesar Chavez

God Man Men Others Be A Man God Help Us Help Suffer

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle. Coretta Scott King

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity. Edward Snowden

Myself Privacy Creativity World Hero Live See Because Doing Intellectual Where Want Room Exploration Therefore

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. Edward Snowden

Government Good Freedom Privacy People World Internet Building Secretly Machine Liberties Destroy Allow Massive Around Surveillance Conscience Basic

I would rather be without a state than without a voice. Edward Snowden

State Would Rather Voice Without Than

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. Emma Goldman

Time Great Law Beginning Stationary Great Idea Chariot Idea Within How Conditions Fixed Wheel Regardless Place Which Us Binds Ever

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. Fannie Lou Hamer

Work Tired Together People Oppression White Kind Got Still Get Trying Get Together Inflict Inflicted Work Together Us

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment. Florence Kelley

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. Florynce Kennedy

Abortion Men Would Would-Be Could Sacrament Get Pregnant

Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil. Frances Beinecke

Change Plants Soil Healthy Dangers Locking Systems Atmosphere Absorb Climate Climate Change Forests Against Root Stand Away Carbon Carbon Dioxide

The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise. Frances Beinecke

Science Events Dangerous Will Weather Unleash Extreme Destructive Tells Temperatures Rise Devastating Fail Global Global Warming Accelerate Reduce Pollution Warming Us Sea Level Levels

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