Dorothy Day Quotes

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve?

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people USE to be when it comes to their rights.

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

There is no power above people power.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.