Activist Quotes

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.