"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them." – Margaret Atwood

Novelist, journalist, social activist, and unbothered Black woman Louisa Jenkins stands with a cigarette as police attempt to question her during a protest 1957

In the 1940s, Woodie Guthrie wrote "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar

Civil Rights activist Gloria Richardson pushing aside a National Guardsman's bayonet in Cambridge, Maryland, in July 1963

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
– Benjamin Franklin

You'll be back like before
I will fight the fight and win the war
For your love, for your praise
And I'll love you 'til my dying days
When you're gone, I'll go mad
So don't throw away this thing we had
'Cause when push comes to shove
I WILL KILL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO REMIND YOU OF MY LOVE

"We all here on borrowed land. We have to figure out how we’re going to make things right for all the people of this country." — Fannie Lou Hamer

"It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said." – Mark Twain

"Have you no sense of decency, Sir?" – Joseph Welch to Joe McCarthy, 1954