Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Wes Boyd

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

Gloria Steinem

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Anna Howard Shaw

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

Anna Howard Shaw

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.

Betty Friedan

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

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!

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Barbara Smith

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

Sarah Brady

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

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.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Charles Evers

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

Herbert Samuel

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Herbert Samuel

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Herbert Samuel

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Benjamin Tucker

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Benjamin Tucker

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

Dorothy Day

We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.

What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.