Maya Angelou
1928–2014 - 13 quotes
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Activists
Browse quote pages for activists in the Power Place collection, with the most quoted names first.
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52 authors
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968 - 9 quotes
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884–1962 - 7 quotes
Nelson Mandela
1918–2013 - 6 quotes
Mahatma Gandhi
1869–1948 - 5 quotes
Bob Marley
1945–1981 - 4 quotes
George Bernard Shaw
1856–1950 - 4 quotes
Helen Keller
1880–1968 - 4 quotes
John Lennon
1940–1980 - 4 quotes
Muhammad Ali
1942–2016 - 4 quotes
Malcolm X
1925–1965 - 3 quotes
Audrey Hepburn
1929–1993 - 2 quotes
Banksy
Born 1973 - 2 quotes
Christine Caine
Born 1966 - 2 quotes
C. L. Anderson
1853–1938 - 2 quotes
Woody Guthrie
1912–1967 - 2 quotes
Yoko Ono
Born 1933 - 2 quotes
Adrienne Rich
1929–2012 - 1 quote
Alice Walker
Born 1944 - 1 quote
Amanda Gorman
Born 1998 - 1 quote
Amy Goodman
Born 1957 - 1 quote
Angela Y. Davis
Born 1944 - 1 quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Born 1945 - 1 quote
Billie Jean King
Born 1943 - 1 quote
Billy Graham
1918–2018 - 1 quote
David Livingstone
1813–1873 - 1 quote
Douglas William Jerrold
1803–1857 - 1 quote
E. F. Schumacher
1911–1977 - 1 quote
Elie Wiesel
1928–2016 - 1 quote
Emiliano Zapata
1879–1919 - 1 quote
Frank Zappa
1940–1993 - 1 quote
Frederick Douglass
1817–1895 - 1 quote
Harvey Milk
1930–1978 - 1 quote
Henry Ward Beecher
1813–1887 - 1 quote
James Baldwin
1924–1987 - 1 quote
Jesse Jackson
1941–2026 - 1 quote
Joan Baez
Born 1941 - 1 quote
John Lewis
1940–2020 - 1 quote
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)
1869–1948 - 1 quote
Marcus Garvey
1887–1940 - 1 quote
Mary Burton
1819–1909 - 1 quote
Mother Teresa
1910–1997 - 1 quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1876–1948 - 1 quote
Nadine Gordimer
1923–2014 - 1 quote
Nipsey Hussle
1985–2019 - 1 quote
Norman Cousins
1915–1990 - 1 quote
Sheryl Sandberg
Born 1969 - 1 quote
Simone de Beauvoir
1908–1986 - 1 quote
Stefan Molyneux
Born 1966 - 1 quote
Thich Nhat Hanh
1926–2022 - 1 quote
Tupac Shakur
1971–1996 - 1 quote
Václav Havel
1936–2011 - 1 quote