Political Activity

🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."

🇺🇸Cornel West

philosophy

Socialism

b. 1953

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

Benjamin Disraeli

Politics

Conservatism

1804–1881

"[I]n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate."

🇻🇪Nicolás Maduro

Politics

b. 1962

"Your national representatives...want to invade and intervene in Venezuela – they say... in the name of democracy and freedom. But it’s not like that... is as false as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq..."

🇺🇸Julia de Burgos

Social Activism

1914–1953

"To save something beautiful you must destroy it, so it does not fall, limp and degraded, from our miserable human hands."

🇺🇸Assata Shakur

Social Activism

1947–2025

"There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black."

🇫🇮Mauno Koivisto

Politics

1923–2017

"I hate atheists because they want to become gods themselves and think they understand things that no one understands."

🇧🇷João Goulart

Politics

1918–1976

"It is regrettable that still large parts of the population that have had access to higher education remain insensitive to the national reality."

🇷🇺Andrei Zhdanov

Politics

1896–1948

"The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best."

Charles James Fox

Politics

1749–1806

"Religion was best understood when least talked of."

Mary Wollstonecraft

Philosophy

feminism

1759–1797

"You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on."

🇺🇸Coretta Scott King

Social Activism

1927–2006

"Coretta Scott King – slideshow by LIFE magazine"

🇺🇸Naomi Wolf

Journalism

b. 1962

"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance."

🇷🇺Valentina Tereshkova

Politics

b. 1937

"If I had money, I would enjoy flying to Mars... This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back."

🇷🇺Alexander Bogdanov

Literature

1873–1928

"It seemed to me that in your arms I felt your entire youthful world. Its despotism, its egoism, its desperate thirst for happiness—all of this was in your caresses. Your love is like murder. But – I love you, Lenni."

🇫🇷Prosper Mérimée

Music

Romanticism

1803–1870

"I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles."

🇺🇸Jesse Jackson

Politics

civil rights movement

1941–2026

"When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change, and growth."

🇷🇺Victor Serge

Literature

1901–1941

"All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?"

🇵🇱Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Politics

b. 1942

"Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral could choose to produce oscypek however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him."