A page of great quotes on the value of activism

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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

This country belongs to the people and whenever they shall grow weary of their government they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it, or revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln

All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it; I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of demons should I make a whore of my soul. -- Thomas Paine

many more

http://www.famous-quote.net/quotes-activism.shtml

[niyad]

1. from women:

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. --Molly Ivins

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. Molly Ivins

"Don't agonize. Organize! floryne kennedy

You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun. -florynce kennedy

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured. Suzanne La Follette

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. hannah arendt

just a few--I am sure others can come up with more.