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Speech · Political speech

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass

1857

★ 7.0

Autobiography and memoir

You had better make some noise.

1965

★ 4.0

Do get all on fire and be as cross as you please.

Susan B. Anthony

1856

★ 3.9

I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Sojourner Truth

1867

★ 3.9

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1964

★ 3.8

Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

1825

★ 3.7

We must push as hard as they push, and then push a little stronger.

1977

★ 3.6

Courtroom speech · Speech

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in har¬ mony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

1964

★ 2.0

The best way to get inside city hall is to make noise on the street.

The New Yorker · 2011

★ 2.0

Essay · Feminist literature

I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists · 2014

★ 2.0

Let frustration fuel inspiration.

2015

★ 2.0

Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

1986

★ 1.3

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

Malala Yousafzai

2013

★ 1.3

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

2014

★ 1.2