Activist Quotes at BrainyQuote

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
Mary Antin	1909 - 1949
Julian Assange	1971 -
Bill Ayers	1944 -
Ella Baker	1903 - 1986
Roger Nash Baldwin	1884 - 1981
Abu Bakar Bashir	1938 -
Daisy Bates	1914 - 1999
Henry Bergh	1811 - 1888
Steven Biko	1946 - 1977
Bob Black	1951 -
Julian Bond	1940 -
Catherine Booth	1829 - 1890
Tomas Borge	1930 - 2012
Wes Boyd	1960 -
Charles Bradlaugh	1833 - 1891
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 -
John Burns	1858 - 1943
Jack Cade	-
James P. Cannon	1890 - 1974
Roger Caras	1928 - 2001
Stokely Carmichael	1941 - 1998
Edward Carpenter	1844 - 1929
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 -
Thomas Clarkson	1760 - 1846
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 -
Robert Emmet	1780 - 1803
Medgar Evers	1925 - 1963
Charles Evers	1922 -
James L. Farmer, Jr.	1920 - 1999
Eliza Farnham	-
Louis Farrakhan	1933 -
Millicent Fawcett	1847 - 1929
Ruth First	1925 - 1982
Sandra Fluke	1981 -
Judith Ellen Foster	1840 - 1910
Sebastian Franck	1499 - 1543
Betty Friedan	1921 - 2006
James Garner	1928 -
John Gates	1913 - 1992
Susan George	1950 -
John Gilmore	1955 -
Ira Glasser	1938 -
Emma Goldman	1869 - 1940
Samuel Gompers	1850 - 1924
Andrew Goodman	1943 - 1964
Wavy Gravy	1936 -
Germaine Greer	1939 -
Wilfred Grenfell	1865 - 1940
Angelina Grimke	1805 - 1879
Chen Guangcheng	1971 -
Fannie Lou Hamer	1917 - 1977
Fred Hampton	1948 - 1969
Henry Hampton	1940 - 1998
Nhat Hanh	1926 -
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
Trevor Huddleston	1913 - 1998
Dolores Huerta	1930 -
Patricia Ireland	1945 -
Alija Izetbegovic	1925 - 2003
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 -
Fanny Kaplan	1890 - 1918
Nancy Keenan	1952 -
Vivien Kellems	1896 - 1975
Florence Kelley	1859 - 1932
Bruce Kent	1929 -
Jack Kevorkian	1928 -
Coretta Scott King	1927 - 2006
Lane Kirkland	1922 -
David Korten	-
Maggie Kuhn	1905 - 1995
Satish Kumar	1936 -
William Kunstler	1919 - 1995
Aung San Suu Kyi	1945 -
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi	1945 -
James Larkin	1875 - 1947
Amos Adams Lawrence	1814 - 1886
Lilly Ledbetter	1938 -
Daniel De Leon	1852 - 1914
Rosa Luxemburg	1870 - 1919
Wangari Maathai	1940 -
Elaine MacDonald	-
Catharine MacKinnon	1946 -
Errico Malatesta	1853 - 1932
Malcolm X	1925 - 1965
Ellen Malcolm	1947 -
Will Marshall	-
Jose Marti	1853 - 1895
Giuseppe Mazzini	1805 - 1872
Colman McCarthy	-
Francis John McConnell	1871 - 1953
Russell Means	1939 -
George Meany	1894 - 1980
Albert Meltzer	1920 - 1996
Kate Millett	1934 -
Heather Mills	1968 -
David Mixner	1946 -
Michael Moore	1954 -
Cherrie Moraga	1952 -
Robin Morgan	1941 -
Constance Baker Motley	1921 - 2005
Lucretia Mott	1793 - 1880
Jean Moulin	1899 - 1943
Yousef Munayyer	-
Emily Murphy	1868 - 1933
A. J. Muste	1885 - 1967
Carry Nation	1846 - 1911
Alexei Navalny	1976 -
Scott Nearing	1883 - 1983
Ingrid Newkirk	1949 -
Huey Newton	1942 - 1989
Florence Nightingale	1820 - 1910
Frances O'Grady	1959 -
Jean O'Leary	1948 - 2005
Carl von Ossietzky	1889 - 1938
Sylvia Pankhurst	1882 - 1960
Emmeline Pankhurst	1858 - 1928
Rosa Parks	1913 - 2005
Alice Paul	1885 - 1977
Leonard Peltier	1944 -
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
Ernestine Rose	1810 - 1892
Alice S. Rossi	1922 - 2011
Jerry Rubin	1938 - 1994
Sue Sanders	1947 -
Bobby Sands	1954 - 1981
Margaret Sanger	1879 - 1966
Phyllis Schlafly	1924 -
Rose Schneiderman	1882 - 1972
Bobby Seale	1936 -
May Wright Sewall	1844 - 1920
Betty Shabazz	1936 - 1997
Manal al-Sharif	1979 -
Anna Howard Shaw	1847 - 1919
Cindy Sheehan	1957 -
Martha Shelley	1943 -
Walter Sisulu	1912 - 2003
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
Flora Tristan	1803 - 1844
Richard Trumka	1949 -
Sojourner Truth	1787 - 1883
Harriet Tubman	1820 - 1913
Benjamin Tucker	1854 - 1939
Nat Turner	1800 - 1831
Sergei Udaltsov	1977 -
Pancho Villa	1877 - 1923
Henry Cantwell Wallace	1866 - 1924
Zerelda G. Wallace	1817 - 1901
Ida B. Wells	1862 - 1931
Mary Whitehouse	1910 - 2001
Simon Wiesenthal	1908 - 2005
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
Alan Woods	1944 -
Francis Wright	1795 - 1852
Jon Wynne-Tyson	1924 -
Ilya Yashin	1983 -
Ahmed Yassin	1937 - 2004
Whitney M. Young	1921 - 1971
Ernst Zundel	1939 -