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American Activist Quotes

Author Birth - Death
Grace Abbott 1878 - 1939 
Ralph Abernathy 1926 - 1990 
Kathy Acker 1947 - 1997 
Charles Adams 1770 - 1800 
Jane Addams 1860 - 1935 
Saul Alinsky 1909 - 1972 
Ethel Percy Andrus 1884 - 1967 
Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906 
Bill Ayers 1944 -   
Ella Baker 1903 - 1986 
Roger Nash Baldwin 1884 - 1981 
Daisy Bates 1914 - 1999 
Henry Bergh 1811 - 1888 
Bob Black 1951 -   
Julian Bond 1940 -   
Catherine Booth 1829 - 1890 
Wes Boyd 1960 -   
James Brady 1940 -   
Sarah Brady 1942 -   
Harry Bridges 1902 - 1990 
Earl Browder 1891 - 1973 
Sam Brown 1964 -   
William Wells Brown 1814 - 1884 
H. Rap Brown 1943 -   
Olympia Brown 1853 - 1926 
Charlotte Bunch 1944 -   
James P. Cannon 1890 - 1974 
Roger Caras 1928 - 2001 
Stokely Carmichael 1941 - 1998 
Carrie Chapman Catt 1859 - 1947 
Ralph Chaplin 1887 - 1961 
Maria Weston Chapman 1806 - 1885 
Cesar Chavez 1927 - 1993 
Lydia M. Child 1802 - 1880 
Noam Chomsky 1928 -   
Eldridge Cleaver 1935 - 1998 
Voltairine de Cleyre 1866 - 1912 
Rachel Corrie 1979 - 2003 
Angela Davis 1944 -   
Dorothy Day 1897 - 1980 
Marian Wright Edelman 1939 -   
Jane Elliott 1933 -   
Medgar Evers 1925 - 1963 
Charles Evers 1922 -   
James L. Farmer, Jr. 1920 - 1999 
Eliza Farnham  
Louis Farrakhan 1933 -   
Sandra Fluke 1981 -   
Judith Ellen Foster 1840 - 1910 
Betty Friedan 1921 - 2006 
James Garner 1928 -   
John Gates 1913 - 1992 
Susan George 1950 -   
Ira Glasser 1938 -   
Samuel Gompers 1850 - 1924 
Andrew Goodman 1943 - 1964 
Wavy Gravy 1936 -   
Angelina Grimke 1805 - 1879 
Fannie Lou Hamer 1917 - 1977 
Fred Hampton 1948 - 1969 
Henry Hampton 1940 - 1998 
Dorothy Height 1912 - 2010 
Ammon Hennacy 1893 - 1970 
Josephine K. Henry 1846 - 1928 
Jack Herer 1939 -   
Jim Hightower 1943 -   
Joe Hill 1879 - 1915 
Sidney Hillman 1887 - 1946 
Jimmy Hoffa 1913 - 1975 
Abbie Hoffman 1936 - 1989 
Julia Ward Howe 1819 - 1910 
Dolores Huerta 1930 -   
Patricia Ireland 1945 -   
Jesse Jackson 1941 -   
George Jackson 1941 - 1971 
Benjamin Todd Jealous 1973 -   
Sonia Johnson 1936 -   
Mother Jones 1837 - 1930 
Mary Harris Jones 1837 - 1930 
Van Jones 1968 -   
Nancy Keenan 1952 -   
Vivien Kellems 1896 - 1975 
Florence Kelley 1859 - 1932 
Jack Kevorkian 1928 -   
Coretta Scott King 1927 - 2006 
Lane Kirkland 1922 -   
David Korten  
Maggie Kuhn 1905 - 1995 
William Kunstler 1919 - 1995 
Amos Adams Lawrence 1814 - 1886 
Lilly Ledbetter 1938 -   
Catharine MacKinnon 1946 -   
Malcolm X 1925 - 1965 
Ellen Malcolm 1947 -   
Will Marshall  
Colman McCarthy  
Francis John McConnell 1871 - 1953 
Russell Means 1939 -   
George Meany 1894 - 1980 
Kate Millett 1934 -   
David Mixner 1946 -   
Michael Moore 1954 -   
Cherrie Moraga 1952 -   
Robin Morgan 1941 -   
Constance Baker Motley 1921 - 2005 
Lucretia Mott 1793 - 1880 
A. J. Muste 1885 - 1967 
Carry Nation 1846 - 1911 
Scott Nearing 1883 - 1983 
Huey Newton 1942 - 1989 
Jean O'Leary 1948 - 2005 
Rosa Parks 1913 - 2005 
Alice Paul 1885 - 1977 
Wendell Phillips 1811 - 1884 
Peace Pilgrim 1908 - 1981 
Ai-jen Poo  
Keith Preston 1966 -   
Robert Purvis 1810 - 1898 
A. Philip Randolph 1889 - 1979 
Cecile Richards 1958 -   
George Ripley 1802 - 1880 
George Lincoln Rockwell 1918 - 1967 
Alice S. Rossi 1922 - 2011 
Jerry Rubin 1938 - 1994 
Margaret Sanger 1879 - 1966 
Phyllis Schlafly 1924 -   
Bobby Seale 1936 -   
May Wright Sewall 1844 - 1920 
Betty Shabazz 1936 - 1997 
Anna Howard Shaw 1847 - 1919 
Cindy Sheehan 1957 -   
Martha Shelley 1943 -   
Barbara Smith 1946 -   
Joseph Sobran 1946 -   
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815 - 1902 
Gloria Steinem 1934 -   
Andy Stern 1950 -   
Lucy Stone 1818 - 1893 
Henrietta Szold 1860 - 1945 
Mary Church Terrell 1863 - 1954 
Norman Thomas 1884 - 1968 
Richard Trumka 1949 -   
Sojourner Truth 1787 - 1883 
Harriet Tubman 1820 - 1913 
Benjamin Tucker 1854 - 1939 
Nat Turner 1800 - 1831 
Henry Cantwell Wallace 1866 - 1924 
Zerelda G. Wallace 1817 - 1901 
Ida B. Wells 1862 - 1931 
Roy Wilkins 1901 - 1981 
Frances E. Willard 1839 - 1898 
Emma Willard 1787 - 1870 
David Wilmot 1814 - 1868 
Leonard Woodcock 1911 - 2001 
Victoria Woodhull 1838 - 1927 
Whitney M. Young 1921 - 1971 

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