Best 107 quotes in «activist quotes» category

We are all a great creation, burdened by our shortfalls; the very shortfalls cannot make us anything less than our self worth, we aspire to be a better people and together a great nation.

What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were beginning to appreciate the blasphemies of fictionalized blues women - especially their outrageous politics of sexuality - and the knowledge that might be gleaned from their lives about the possibilities of transforming gender relations within black communities, perhaps we also could benefit from a look at the artistic contributions of the original blues women.

We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give. Too much change is required inside, outside. And we are too small. But all that is required is that you step into the truth of your life. And speak it, write it, paint it, dance it. That you shine your light on your truth, for the world to see. And as hundreds, then thousands, then millions do this – each sparking the courage of yet more – Suddenly we have a world alight with truth.

What I mean when I talk about sovereignty is that "we have a different way of being". Those of us who are organising around the idea of sovereignty are not asking for inclusion within the capitalist system. We're not asking for the so-called benefits of a capitalist system, which is always based on exclusions because it is based on privatising what was once communal and shared. We're saying no to being incorporated. We're saying yes to a completely different way of being, to a society based on commonality and plurality, not the fundamentalism of markets, religion, and the gender binary. We're not pushing to get in. Why should we want to enmesh ourselves in an economy and a political system that is driving the planet and our species toward destruction?

When it's easier to buy a cache of assault weapons than cast a vote — expect massacres to be the norm.

You can never be a terrorist at the same time be an activist; terrorism is oppression activitism is freedom

You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

Astronauts: space activists.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.

I want to be an activist professor.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.

Not every alt-right thinker or activist is a white nationalist, by far, but there's a sense that political correctness is a bigger problem than racism, and that racism is used as a cudgel for silencing.

Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice.

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.