American Activist Quotations | Page 2

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

We have to have an emancipation proclamation for children. What is at issue is children's rights; not the right of sexual access to children.

The fact is that these bankers and traders are taking claims of wealth out of the system; they are not doing any productive work.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

Many teachers are aware of the importance of video games to schoolchildren but are unsure of how they can be used and examined effectively in school.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Growing numbers of blacks are openly passed over when paroles are considered. They have become aware that their only hope lies in resistance.

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

If the cameras stopped rolling today, their hearts would still be over there.

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.

Such hopes are, however, tempered by years of disillusioning memories, which remind us all that it takes two sides to make a peace.

My radical associates were the ones who were in the forefront of the struggle for a better social order where there would not be so many poor.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

We quickly became aware that this was bigger than we thought and that we would have to dig deeper and do more. And we're still doing it today.

We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.

What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

We wanted to say that this is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and that we're not ever to be caught up in the intellectual masturbation of the question of Black Power.

What I would tell the Europeans, but also the Asians and the Latin Americans, is: keep the excesses of Wall Street out of your system.

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me.

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

First, this middle class I think owes its existence to both affirmative action and the expansion of opportunity for people with skills and training.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

The tone is set at home. If parents know their kids are skipping classes, they are our biggest ally to get them back into class.

I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work.

The senate and congressional campaign committees keep getting more and more narrow in their targeting - there is little work done on national message.

The terms of that settlement were never disclosed - not even to me. I was asked if I wanted to know and having had enough of lawsuits I declined.

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

A free race cannot be born to slave mothers. A woman cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

Once you've been baptized, you've been gifted for sainthood... You are God's chosen one.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

That those prominent in the intermediate Socialistic divisions do not fully understand what they are about is evident from the positions they occupy.

You're taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren't freer, they're much worse off than before you meddled in their country.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did.

That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

The basis of the liturgical movement is prayer, the liturgical prayer of the church. It is a revolt against private, individual prayer.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.

This is just the sort of tour that we need to prepare ourselves for further international progress. We expect to have to work hard in all these games, and it is fantastic for us to be able to play the Barbados team at the end of it all.