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    A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

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

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

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

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

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

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    Astronauts: space activists.

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

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

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

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

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    Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

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

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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".

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    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.

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    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.

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    I'm not a gay rights activist.

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

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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

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    I see myself as a climber and an activist.

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    I want to be an activist professor.

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    It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Families are incubators for citizen activists.

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    Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

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    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.

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

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

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    We can all become activists and raise questions.

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

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