Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Fauci

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Sara Blakely

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

Sally Ride

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Lester Bowie

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Kitty Kelley

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

R. D. Laing

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Shirley Chisholm

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Angelina Jolie

I'm certain the stories in this special will inspire viewers the same way these experiences have inspired me, and I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Brad Barber

In general, activism like this makes good sense as long as it's focused on issues that improve shareholder value.

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

B. R. Hayden

The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.

Arlen Specter

the hallmark agenda of the judicial activism of the Rehnquist Court.

John Pike

They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.

Keith Boykin

I've done the activism thing for a long time now, and this is a much better opportunity for me to get my message across, make an impact. Being a part of the media, you get a chance to be part of shaping a dialogue, creating a dialogue. You have much more of an opportunity to create change.

Noreena Hertz

Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie.

Julia Bacha

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

John Lennon

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

David Miliband

Everything about my politics has been about the future

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.