Quotes by Activists - Page 6

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Audre Lorde
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem
Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.
DaShanne Stokes
We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.
DaShanne Stokes
I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.
DaShanne Stokes
Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.
DaShanne Stokes
Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.
DaShanne Stokes
We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.
DaShanne Stokes
Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.
DaShanne Stokes
Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.
DaShanne Stokes
No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.
DaShanne Stokes
Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.
DaShanne Stokes
Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.
DaShanne Stokes
If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.
DaShanne Stokes
Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.
DaShanne Stokes
Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.
DaShanne Stokes
When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.
DaShanne Stokes
If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.
DaShanne Stokes
Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.
DaShanne Stokes
A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
DaShanne Stokes
Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.
DaShanne Stokes
Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.
DaShanne Stokes
The country is dying cause of an lack of men, not a lack of programms.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.
Sil Lai Abrams
An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.
DaShanne Stokes
Free elections don't always result in fair elections.
DaShanne Stokes
Freedom is to live with dignity
Manal Al-Sharif
Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Bryant McGill
It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!
Widad Akreyi
Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.
Widad Akreyi
I disagreed with the conduct of the war, with bombing civilians, categorizing everyone as the enemy or simply as armed men, with the racism and the disregard for those people.
Joe Glenton
Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.
Jasmina Tešanović
When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.
Joel Berg
People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.
DaShanne Stokes
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.
David T. Dellinger
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Arundhati Roy
That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be justified. Indeed, though naturally not inclined to 'fall in love' in this direction, such men are by their nature drawn rather near to women, and it would seem that they often feel a singular appreciation and understanding of the emotional needs and destinies of the other sex, leading in many cases to a genuine though what is called 'Platonic' friendship. There is little doubt that they are often instinctively sought after by women, who, without suspecting the real cause, are conscious of a sympathetic chord in the homogenic which they miss in the normal man.
Edward Carpenter
People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.
DaShanne Stokes
What does love mean if we would deny it to others?
DaShanne Stokes
The power of love is that it sees all people.
DaShanne Stokes
Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.
Sharon Weil
Love should never mean having to live in fear.
DaShanne Stokes
Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.
DaShanne Stokes
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
DaShanne Stokes
Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.
DaShanne Stokes
The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.
DaShanne Stokes
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.
Russell Brand
That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is accurate, and if it's not, then it doesn't matter how much you liked that old urban legend or fictional factoid you once bought into. You will discard it, and be embarrassed by it, seeking instead for truth.
Aron Ra
Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.
Russell Brand
If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.
Russell Brand
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.
Maya Angelou
Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie and a sense of collective purpose at the microlevel of the "team". And the less teamlike the overall organization became with the threat of continuous downsizing, the more management insisted on individual devotion to these largely fictional units.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.
DaShanne Stokes
Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.
DaShanne Stokes
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
Betty Friedan
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
Gloria Steinem
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Maya Angelou