Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

 

Alan Alda, Actor

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. —Alan Alda, Actor

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. —Alan Alda, Actor

 

Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. —Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. —Carrie Chapman Catt, American activist

 

Stokely Carmichael, leader of the SNCC and the Black Panther Party

There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. —Stokely Carmichael, leader of the SNCC and the Black Panther Party

There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience. —Stokely Carmichael, leader of the SNCC and the Black Panther Party

 

John Burns, British activist

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do — that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. —John Burns, British activist

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do — that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects. —John Burns, British activist

 

William Wells Brown, American civil rights activist

People don’t follow titles, they follow courage. —William Wells Brown, American civil rights activist

People don’t follow titles, they follow courage. —William Wells Brown, American civil rights activist

 

Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don’t see them; they don’t see me; we don’t interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of … Continue reading Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don’t see them; they don’t see me; we don’t interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

 

Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn’t have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn’t keep up with their promise. Education didn’t prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn’t have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn’t keep up with their promise. Education didn’t prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. —Julian Bond, American civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP

 

Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. —Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. —Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist

 

Saul Alinsky, American community organizer

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. —Saul Alinsky, American community organizer

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. —Saul Alinsky, American community organizer

 

Jane Addams

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. —Jane Addams

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. —Jane Addams

 

Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist

Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. —Martin Luther King Jr., … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist

Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. —Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist