Best 107 quotes in «activist quotes» category

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.

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

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

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.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

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'.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'.

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.

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

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.

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.

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".

Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.

Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.

Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race.

Magically modified food is a serious issue," Rosabella said. "We don't know the long-term effects on our bodies." She grabbed her ever-present picket sign. "I'm going to protest. Who's with me?" All the girls suddenly checked their MirrorPhones as if an important hext had arrived. "Suit yourselves," she said. "I'm going to talk to Ginger Breadhouse. She's the best cook on campus. Surely she cares about this issue." She hurried over to the next table. "Good luck," Darling called. Rosabella's protests were important, but there were so many things she wanted to change. It was exhausting after a while.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." Civil Rights activist, author, and critic James Baldwin was born on#ThisDayinHistory 1924

She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Earth, she was busier than ever as she raced through Berkeley on her bicycle, and stood on street corners with petitions. She was a blithe spirit, and increasingly a hungry one. Vegan, but not always strict. She never ate meat or tuna fish or honey harvested from indentured bees, but sometimes she craved eggs, and cheese, and even butter, and she bought herself a croissant or ate a slice of whole-wheat pizza, or a box of saltine crackers which she ate in bed, one by one, so that they dissolved on her tongue like the heavenly host.

The activist path is not easy, but it is the only reasonable path for those who desire change.

Stopping Trump has nothing to do with having a left-leaning political bias — it has to do with having a bias for truth and human decency.