Joan Blades famous quotes

05-17-2025

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.
-- Joan Blades

#Children #Issues #Focus
Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. Â It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Â Our ability to protect our families is at stake.
-- Joan Blades

#Powerful #Toxic #Stories
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
-- Joan Blades

#Mother #Parent #Needs
A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.
-- Joan Blades

#Meaningful #Book #People
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
-- Joan Blades

#Country #Real #Optimism
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.
-- Joan Blades

#Moving #Issues #People
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?
-- Joan Blades

#Jobs #Kids #Blue
We are mortgaging our future.
-- Joan Blades

#Our Future
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
-- Joan Blades

#Presidential #Voter Turnout #Voters
People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.
-- Joan Blades

#Thinking #People #Information
When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
-- Joan Blades

#Responsibility #Support #Politics
Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
-- Joan Blades

#Jobs #Home #Years
Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
-- Joan Blades

#Mom #Jobs #Parent
I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
-- Joan Blades

#Activist #Occasions
I'm a mediator by training and inclination.
-- Joan Blades

#Training
Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.
-- Joan Blades

#Mother #Believe #Issues
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.
-- Joan Blades

#Common Sense #Basics #Our Future
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
-- Joan Blades

#Long #Voting #Paper
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.
-- Joan Blades

#Strong #Way #Election

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