4610 quotes by activists for you to enjoy

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time. Benjamin Todd Jealous

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The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected. Benjamin Todd Jealous

Vote Rights Our Protected Without None Which Right

Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win. Benjamin Todd Jealous

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. Benjamin Tucker

Defensive Term Offensive Any Cannot Act Applied

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. Benjamin Tucker

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In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. Benjamin Tucker

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. Benjamin Tucker

Socialism Society On The Contrary Making Discovery Contrary Should Means Description Function

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. Benjamin Tucker

Government Control Attempt Essence

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. Benjamin Tucker

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Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain. Benjamin Tucker

Pain Minimum Invasion Justified Ground Therefore Coercion

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world. Betty Friedan

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! Betty Friedan

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. Betty Friedan

Women Alive Mystique Feminine American Burying Succeeded American Women Millions

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs. Betty Shabazz

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I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute. Betty Williams

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Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do. Betty Williams

You Business Peace World Matter Live Everybody Where

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world. Betty Williams

Struggle Soul Women World Voice Force Nonviolent Role Special

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do. Betty Williams

Peace Will Hopefully Nobel Nobel Peace Prize Prize Done Awarded

There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that. Betty Williams

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