Activism

“We are a salvation people - this is our speciality - getting saved and keeping saved, and then getting somebody else saved.”

“Participación y compromiso se refuerzan mutuamente; por lo tanto, no hay participación pequeña.”

“Je n'ai jamais voulu séparer le rêve de l'action.”

“The time has come to proclaim that, for the establishment of peace and human dignity, each of us must work and fight to the last.”

“I am ready to act up to what I write, and would freely give my life in the cause of freedom.”

“Votes for Women. I’m going to march in the streets and carry a banner.”

“While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight.”

“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery.”

“We continue anyway because once you have seen the sufferings and oppression, you simply cannot look away anymore.”

“Let us not mark this anniversary with fine-sounding words, but with deeds.”

“No one will deliver freedom to the woman, except the woman herself.”

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.”

“The question is will we do it?”

“For me, returning home was not a question. It was my obligation to work and speak on behalf of my people.”

“I will never rest day or night till I see it destroyed, root and branch.”

“The whole struggles and efforts of my life have been directed to the achievement of the liberties of my country.”

“The movement now is simply to win Ireland for the Irish—Ireland for the Irish under any form.”

“Only if we end this bad system will the future of Burma’s people, including my daughter’s, be bright.”

“The struggle will continue.”

“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go.”