Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

William Kunstler

We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

William Kunstler

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

Phyllis Schlafly

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Robert Purvis

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Patricia Ireland

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

George Rockwell

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

Jim Hightower

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

Richard Grimes

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Henry Hampton

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Henrietta Szold

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

David Crane

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

Carry Nation

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Kathy Acker

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

George Jackson

Growing numbers of blacks are openly passed over when paroles are considered. They have become aware that their only hope lies in resistance.

Lucretia Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

David Korten

The fact is that these bankers and traders are taking claims of wealth out of the system; they are not doing any productive work.

Michael Scott

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

Constance Baker Motley

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Daisy Bates

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Victoria Woodhull

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

Angela Davis

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

Wes Boyd

The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.