Quotes About Activism

...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.