Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Grimes

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

David Crane

The terms of that settlement were never disclosed - not even to me. I was asked if I wanted to know and having had enough of lawsuits I declined.

Margaret Sanger

A free race cannot be born to slave mothers. A woman cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.

Phyllis Schlafly

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

Once you've been baptized, you've been gifted for sainthood... You are God's chosen one.

I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

Jane Elliott

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

Benjamin Tucker

That those prominent in the intermediate Socialistic divisions do not fully understand what they are about is evident from the positions they occupy.

Cindy Sheehan

You're taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren't freer, they're much worse off than before you meddled in their country.

Eldridge Cleaver

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

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.

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.

David Korten

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

David Korten

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

David Korten

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

David Korten

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

David Korten

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Phyllis Schlafly

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

Jack Herer

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

Jack Herer

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

Jack Herer

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Julian Bond

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Julian Bond

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

Julian Bond

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Stokely Carmichael

We wanted to say that this is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and that we're not ever to be caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power.

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me.

Sonia Johnson

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.

David Korten

What I would tell the Europeans, but also the Asians and the Latin Americans, is: keep the excesses of Wall Street out of your system.

Jim Hightower

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

Michael Scott

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.