December 2009
96 posts
“Our movement is not very strong today. It’s not united , it is not well...”
– David Dellinger
“If a society can not help the many that are poor, they cannot save the few that...”
– JFK
“Out of he sexual relationship of politics and economics, the police child is...”
– Jesse Jackson 1969
“It’s important for the youth of a generation to feel like they can change...”
– Barry Melton
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have...”
– Agatha Christie
“What mistakes are made by the piecemeal reformers, who either want to raise...”
– Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts (via newleft)
“The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via adailyriot) (via adamquinn)
“…to overcome capitalism and the state, individuals must unite into community. If...”
– Gustav Landauer (via adamquinn)
“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and...”
– Mikhail Bakunin (via adamquinn)
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle;...”
– Thomas Carlyle, as quoted by Emma Goldman
“If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in queer to work. ‘Hello, can’t...”
– Robin Tyler
“I took part in politics with the earnestness of a good citizen; but I was soon...”
– George Engel
“The longing for rest and peace must itself be thrust aside; it coincides with...”
– Albert Camus, L’Homme revolte- The Rebel, 1951
“In the colonies the truth stood naked, but the citizens of the mother country...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
“Power ain’t money, it’s self-determination”
– DP
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...”
– Desmond Tutu
“The water that carries the boat can also overturn it.”
– Chinese Proverb
“No, painting is not done to decorate apartments it is an instrument of war.”
– Pablo Picasso, 1945
“If a man doesn’t stand for something, he will fall for anything.”
– Unknown
“Less than 3% of you people read books, less than 15% of you read newspapers, the...”
– Howard Beale, The Network (1976)
“There is a role for historians in this desperate era, a role we can play in...”
– james Green, historian at UMass Boston
“Besides that, I think that the definition of grudge-holding is gendered: when...”
– On apologizing and holding grudges « Editorializing the Editors (via clingtomymouth)
“I think, therefore I’m single.”
– Lizz Winstead
“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”
– Mary Astell
“Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.”
– Sheila Rowbotham
“To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.”
– Spanish Proverb
“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the...”
– Lucretia Mott
“Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the...”
– Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
“I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at...”
– Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“Most women are one man away from welfare.”
– Gloria Steinem
“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about...”
– Gloria Steinem
“There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs...”
– Florynce Kennedy
“I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the...”
– Cissy Farenthold
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male...”
– Susan B. Anthony
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.”
– Sally Kempton
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
– Roseanne Barr
“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate...”
– Evelyn Cunningham
“Women belong in the house… and the Senate.”
– Unknown
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one...”
– Clare Boothe Luce
“You will not be able to stay at home, brother. You will not be able to plug in,...”
– Gil-Scott Heron
“Our position was: “If you don’t attack us, there won’t be any...”
– Bobby Seal
“The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make...”
– Huey Newton
“There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.”
– Huey Newton
“You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with...”
– Bobby Seal
“The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which...”
– Joan Baez
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
– Lincoln
“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each...”
– Dave Dellinger
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...”
– MLK jr.
“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always...”
– Heuy Newton