Famous quotes containing the words ism and/or activist:
“Grandpa: Penny, why dont you write a play about ism-mania?
Penny: Ism-mania?
Grandpa: Yeah, sure. You know, communism, fascism, voodooism. Everybodys got an ism these days.
Penny: It sounds like an itch or something.
Grandpa: Its just as catching. When things go a little bad these days, you go out and get yourself an ism and youre in business.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)
“... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)
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