Abolition Quote by Gloria Steinem

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of…

— Manisha Sinha

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

— Peter Kropotkin

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

— Emma Goldman

Things have not changed as much as we would like to think they have. Or maybe we're just in another one of the divided…

— Paul Auster

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity…

— Holly Near

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these…

— Jill Stein

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped…

— Vashti Bunyan

We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still…

— Sarah Gavron

“The pre-Sixties reformist Left, insofar as it concerned itself with oppressed minorities, did so by proclaiming that all of us –– black, white, and…

— Richard M. Rorty

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination…

— Stacey Abrams