Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Grimke

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

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

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

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.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Barbara Smith

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

Barbara Smith

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

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.

Sarah Brady

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

Sarah Brady

We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily.

Sarah Brady

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

Sarah Brady

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

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.

James Brady

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

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.