Best 433 quotes in «activism quotes» category

You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be.

You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center.

Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

You've got to shake your fists at lightning now. You've got to roar like forest fire.

You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your life will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo.

You don’t have to be a professional troublemaker to take a stand...

You have to do to be.

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

Your politics are so far right, They're wrong.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

All activism is fake activism.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

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

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

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

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.

I brake for brunettes.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

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.

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.