Activist Quotes

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.