4601 quotes by activists for you to enjoy

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time. Cesar Chavez

Time Money Rich Learned Years Years Ago May Poor Many

The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change. Cesar Chavez

Change Lie Will Poverty Those See Fail Generations Powerlessness America Burdens Heavy Shortcut Fields Who Violence

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. Chen Guangcheng

Society Civilization Disabled True True Measure How Measure Treats

I can imagine people in Third World countries looking at, you know, someone like Hillary Clinton raising $35 million for her presidential campaign that goes to really, you know, nonproductive means, and they see that, and they just - it's just really immoral, I believe. Cindy Sheehan

You People World Looking Believe Presidential Presidential Campaign Immoral See Someone Countries Like Know Hillary Hillary Clinton Clinton Campaign Goes Just Really Means Her Million Raising Third Imagine Third World

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline. Coretta Scott King

Family Me Heart Fear Feelings Our Rushed Through Allow Learned How Came Hear Refused Sway Racing Resilience

Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Coretta Scott King

Life Justice Never Advanced Taking Human Human Life

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will. Coretta Scott King

Technology Science Will Poverty Science And Technology Our Resources Deficit Something Feed Wrong Human Should Many Human Resources Why

It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices. Coretta Scott King

People Care Our About Except Through Prices Consumer Excessive Cheap Labor dont Care Plain Them Poor Exploit Poor People

We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don't get nominated in the first place - and we can't do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels. Dana Loesch

Power First Party Beginning Filtering Liberal Assuring Local Local Level Out Bud Most Until Nominated First Place Proverbial Get Infiltrate Candidates Place Them Avoid Basic Level Levels

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. Dorothea Dix

Love Peace Victory Despondency Pleasure Has-Been Willow Laurel Poetry Been Branch Branches Mourning To Love Conquest Olive Palm Consecrated

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' Dorothea Dix

Word Nothing Say Vocabulary Adopt Know Reply Done They Say Here

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. Dorothy Day

Time Must See Lay Take Step Cannot Brick

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. Dorothy Day

Life Disagree Political Party Other Way Maintain Parties Political Parties Trying American Communist Communist Party Certainly American Way Who

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor. Dorothy Day

Believe Our Firmly Salvation Depends Poor

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. Edward Snowden

Life Adult Adult Life Almost Almost All Like Spotlight Been Spy Being

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison. Edward Snowden

Time You Free Prison Risk Only Only Time

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. Eldridge Cleaver

Hope Myself Man Change Racism Young Other Muslims Could Like Malcolm Malcolm X America Former Then Whites

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life Education Woman Solitude Opportunities Mind Responsibility Giving Higher Education Own Strongest Higher Individual Individual Life Faculties Development Forces Personal Personal Responsibility Body Full Reason Her

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Mom Woman Mother Wife Sacrificed

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Will Ours Must Use Right

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