Activism Quotes

Activism is wasteful.

— Ruth Asawa

I brake for brunettes.

— Rhett Akins

Being an activist is not easy.

— Joshua Wong

Art is activism.

— Angie Thomas

Writing is a form of activism.

— Angie Thomas

Philanthropy is activism.

— Eli Broad

Activism is in my DNA.

— Lucy McBath

All activism is fake activism.

— Cody Wilson

“The most effective form of activism is kindness.”

— Bryant McGill

“I detect the activist returning with a vengence.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

— Emiliano Salinas

“activism can be the journey rather than the arrival;”

— Grace Lee Boggs

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

— Ronald Reagan

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

— Dolores Huerta

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

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

— Elie Wiesel

In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

— Frank Zappa

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

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time.

— Ryan Holiday

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't…

— John May

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

— Joni Mitchell

“There’s no neutrality in a burning house. Silence may feel safe, but it still smells of smoke.”

— Lawrence Nault

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

— Ben Edwards

We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe…

— Annie Lennox

Political activism is not failing because people are too busy watching cat videos online, but because of a fundamental collapse of citizen…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace…

— Mark Shields

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end,…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of…

— Patrick Califia

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what…

— Anonymous

When Boston harnesses the collective energy, activism, and joy of all our communities, we will make the change we need and deserve…

— Michelle Wu

We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color.…

— Sasha Velour

It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because…

— Melissa Gira Grant

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers…

— Marianne Williamson

“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply…

— Noam Chomsky

My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an…

— Sonita Alizadeh

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the…

— Juan Williams

The corruption at higher levels flourishes and sustains corruption all around. Some people try to justify corruption on the ground of its…

— K S Venkataraman

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our…

— Kamand Kojouri

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say…

— Michael Kinsley