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2519 Activist Quotes

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Only way Woman Person Creative work
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You can have it all, just not all at the same time.

Have it Not all Same time
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The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

The feminists Destroyed Old age Image
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Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one’s level of security within the universe.

Attitudes Creatures Conditioned One's level
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people’s opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.

Poverty problem Result Corruption Taxes
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The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive – she is the ultimate outsider.

Double jeopardy Being black Female Racist
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I’m doing what I’m doing because I believe in human dignity, equality and freedom. I cannot be free if my fellow human beings are not free.

I believe Human dignity Equality Freedom
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You must model what you preach if you’re to be credible.

Must model You preach Be credible
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The best must always get better.You feel good when you stretch yourself.
The best Must always Better Feel good
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What distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom is the sense of being connected to others.

What distinguished Human being Rest Animal kingdom
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Overcoming authoritarianism starts with recognizing it. The attitude that those in authority are to be respected to the point of not daring to question their behavior, even when it involves wrong-doing, needs to be changed.

Overcoming authoritarianism Recognizing it The attitude Authority
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Expert think Have Free generation Mothers
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

Have No regrets My life Crazy things
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Be who You like Mean it
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

Not hard Feel Outsider One time
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories

People Deny themselves Putting Categories
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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

My mum Always told Was precious Worthless
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards

Grown up Little boy Exploded out Life backwards
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Sometimes people do you a favor when they drop out of your life.

Sometime People Do you Favor
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

Scariest thing Abuse Shape My opinion
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It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Good ethos Life Unknown With truth
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

Kids Genuine Come up Talk
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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

Compulsive person Multitask Well organised D
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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

Good Challenge Yourself Really daunting
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Because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie

Life slips The rest My journey A star
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

The truth Our civilization Christian Tragic
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

Great fear My heart One day Loving
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it

Not permissible Destroying Family life
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

Beloved country Unborn child Inheritor Our fear
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering.For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.

Never thought Christian Free Suffering
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

Sorrow Better Than fear Journey
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Work For men The land The people
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Sorrow Fear Impoverishes always May enrich
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Life Taught me Expect nothing Success
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

The ground Holy Came from The Creator
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And money is not something to go mad about.Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children
Money Mad For food Clothes
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Weak Sinful man God His hands
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Forgive us Have trespasses
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Our emancipation The fear Bondage Secret
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Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

Man's inhumanity Last word The truth lies deeper Economic slavery
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

War Blind obedience Unthinking stupidity Brutish callousness
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Organized violence Laws orders Obey Compel you
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Inhumanity Keynote Stupidity In power
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

The cure Evil Disorder More liberty
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Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

The worker Change From government Capitalism
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In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

Anarchism means Condition Society All men
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Socialism Like Christianity Destroyed itself Power
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

War paralyzes Your courage Deadens The spirit
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It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation.

The system Than individuals Source Pollution
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Let’s protect it and eschew cheap politics. Remember, people matter.

Protect it Eschew Cheap politics People matter
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