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

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

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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

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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

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

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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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

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To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party

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