Bigs Quote by Jill Stein

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just…

— Marianne Williamson

Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

— Frederick Lenz

In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the struggle, whether…

— Vijay Prashad

In the 1880s, women were decades away from earning the right to vote. Few owned property - if they were even permitted to do…

— Mary Pilon

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.

— Michelle Alexander

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza

Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were…

— Gloria Steinem

"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right…

— Sarah Gavron