32 Quotes by Joan Blades

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.

The data that kind of shocked me and got me started on this book was finding out that mothers get paid a lot less for equivalent jobs.

I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.