It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
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.
The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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?
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily.
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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!
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.
I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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.
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
Our only hope is to control the vote.
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.
But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.
Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.
There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.
And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
You can do whatever you want with my work.
I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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.
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.
I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.
Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.