Category: activist
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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is the mind that makes the body.
Sojourner Truth
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Negroes’ problem is that they do not have their egos. That’s why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God’s word, so he have to go and get some white fellow’s agenda and put it in his church.
Jesse Jackson
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
George Bernard Shaw
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men’s rights are nothing more. Women’s rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
Elie Wiesel
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu