The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.Gloria Steinem
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.Gloria Steinem
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.Gloria Steinem
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.Leo Tolstoy
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.Leo Tolstoy
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.Leo Tolstoy
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.Alan Watts
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.Angela Davis
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.Angela Davis
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.Angela Davis
