Joan Blades Quotes
- Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
- It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with…
- Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when…
- Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power…
- I'm a mediator by training and inclination.
- I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
- Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs…
- Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
- Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. Â It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of…
- People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty…
- The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
- A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally…
- I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
- We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100…
- What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs,…
- We are mortgaging our future.
- We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
- When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to…
- We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
- What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.