Best 107 quotes in «activist quotes» category

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.

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 see myself as a climber and an activist.

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.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I want to be an activist professor.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

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

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

A lexivist, among other aspects, is a languages (phenomenological) activist.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

Connell doesn't read the campus papers much, but he has still managed to hear about the debating society inviting a neo-Nazi to give a speech. It's all over social media. There was even an article in The Irish Times. Connell hasn't commented on any of the Facebook threads, but has liked several comments calling for the invite to be rescinded, which is probably the most strident political action he has ever taken in his life.

Anger is energy: If you hold on to it, it’ll infect you. But if you channel it into something positive — great things are possible.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.

A true artist is pleased the most by the sight of his or her work at work.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

Democracy is only as moral and just as those in power, and only as wise as the citizens who elect them.

Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.

Everyone is born an artist. What differentiates us are the variations of creativity.

I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new fury with all your wide futures promised I am woman and not white.

I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all their intensity, I might have lost my mind. If I had allowed myself to cry, I might never have been able to stop. So I survived, but I never felt joy, never felt safe.

I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic

If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm sick of rappers using "bitches" and "hoes" as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a hate group. Feminists are not all female. Nor has it got an anti-male agenda. It's about equality! I've had a weird, special bond with women since I was a kid. And it's just a shame really that I'm gay.

If you had the option to pray for me or fight with me, you better choose the fight.

In current times when everyone tells us to work smart, they are right. Be idealist, bring grand big ideas, innovate and launch thrilling initiatives but then, work hard. Work real hard because all that has ever been achieved in this world is by true dedication, persistence and consistent hard work".

If you don't fight for your rights, you won't be able to help others fight for their own.

If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.