Best 433 quotes in «activism quotes» category

If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

I brake for brunettes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

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

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

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

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.

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.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

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.

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

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

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

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

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

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

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

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Philanthropy is activism.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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?

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

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

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.

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.

All that is needed is to listen. The love song of the world enters our souls through the language of life. Our touchstone of strength forms the shape of our beloveds. Courage surges into our limbs. We rise. One foot steps in the direction of change. This is the Love that thrusts the world through eternity and carries us forward into the infinity of tomorrow. It sings overhead, scouring the barriers of reality, looking for an opening.

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?

Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice.

Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...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.

Anymal liberationists who release fox or chinchillas from fur farms, free veal calves from chains in abysmal crates, destroy transport trucks that haul terrified turkeys and sheep to their premature deaths, burn slaughterhouses that dismember pigs and chickens, or destroy computers in research facilities are not dangerous terrorists. Anymal liberationists simply believe that life is precious, and that an industry designed to manipulate and destroy life for the sake of profits is ethically and spiritually unacceptable. They do not target the lives of random citizens—or the lives of any citizens. Anymal liberationists do not target life—they target industries (and profits) that flourish at the expense of life—and they attempt to rescue the exploited. Terrorists kill randomly; anymal liberationists have never killed anyone. Anymal liberationists exemplify what it is to live into the core teachings of every major religion concerning rightful relations between human beings and anymals.