Best 433 quotes in «activism quotes» category

In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism.

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because they're working. The activism privileges people who hated doing sex work, are no longer doing it, and have a job at a social service organization, for example, that trains them on how to speak to the media. We are hearing from those people quite a bit.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism, you live so many experiences that otherwise they wouldn't be there. This is why peoples' lives are so enriched.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot of other reporters I know: Human suffering is bad, and if reporting stories about it brings it to light and someone does something, that's part of the point of journalism. And it's a thin line between that and activism, and you have to be careful about that.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Philanthropy is activism.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

We won't get fooled again!

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

86% if the powerful outlaw life; if they ban love, if they constrict liberty with unjust laws . . . then the dandelions must leap up in defiance, in numbers too vast to suppress, with persistence too determined to stop. And why should they wait for violent means to achieve such a goal, when they could embody that world today?

Acknowledging and protecting nonhuman individuals places limits on human power, and will put an end to a host of ill-gotten gains – just as emancipation curtailed white power and put an end to the ill-gotten gains of Caucasian-Americans. Consequently, animal activists who push for change are often met with derision and indifference by those who wish to continue their accustomed diet, those who do not want to rethink their leather shoes, toiletries, or treasured forms of entertainment. Feminists and civil rights protesters who asked others to change for the sake of justice – to give up their ill-gotten gains – were and are met with similar insults and raucous rejections.

A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a movement generates the appropriate concepts and language that captures the frustration, anger, or fear of the group's members and places responsibility where it is warranted.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Activists have not been passive. For decades, we have tried every tactic to shift the course of our governments. We have voted, written editorials and manifestos, donated money, held signs, protests in marches, blocked streets, shared links, signed petitions, held workshops, knitted scarves, learn to farm, turned off the television, programmed apps, engaged in direct action, committed vandalism, launched legal challenges against pipelines . . . and occupied the financial districts. All this has been for naught. A new approach to activism and a new kind of protest are desperately needed.

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

Activism” is not just what we see on the streets or on the Internet or in the news; sometimes, “activism” is the simple act of doggedly, determinedly surviving.

Activists must not work against one another in their single-minded dedication to one specific cause. Those fighting to protect horses must not eat cattle. We do well to specialize, but we do not do well if we specialize without knowledge of interlocking oppressions—or without the application of that knowledge.

A little difference is still different.

All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.

An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

An ancient melody calls us To the awareness of who we are Infinite heart Infinite love Infinite peace Fierce compassion Ultimate power -I am a Magnificent Woman

Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers?

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant. An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.