Bob Black

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Bob Black People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. Bob Black The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of [...]

Steven Biko

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Steven Biko So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are [...]

Henry Bergh

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. Henry Bergh

Daisy Bates

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. 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 No man or woman who tries [...]

Abu Bakar Bashir

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. Abu Bakar Bashir As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. Abu Bakar Bashir What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything? Abu Bakar [...]

Roger Nash Baldwin

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. Roger Nash Baldwin I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems [...]

Ethel Percy Andrus

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. Ethel Percy Andrus We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus

John Burns

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. John Burns The Thames is liquid history. John Burns Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand. John [...]

Saul Alinsky

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Saul Alinsky Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. Saul Alinsky We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. Saul Alinsky Always [...]

Mary Antin

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. Mary Antin If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. Mary Antin You [...]

Susan B. Anthony

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! Susan B. Anthony Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. Susan B. Anthony White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored [...]

Jane Addams

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. Jane Addams Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. Jane Addams The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an [...]

Jack Cade

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. Jack Cade They say that the commons of England [...]

James P. Cannon

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible. James P. Cannon The art of politics is knowing what to do next. James P. Cannon

Kathy Acker

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. Kathy Acker I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these [...]

Grace Abbott

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. Grace Abbott Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. Grace Abbott The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours [...]

Ralph Abernathy

You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last. Ralph Abernathy He told us [...]