Activism Quotes · Page 10

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

— Wael Ghonim

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

— Don Henley

“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

— Joni Mitchell

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

— John Baldoni

Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

— Jackie DeShannon

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

— Kenny Stills

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

— Elizabeth Janeway

“Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.”

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot…

— Donatella Versace

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and…

— Kofi Siriboe

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first…

— Abhijit Naskar

When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue.…

— Jason W Clay

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and…

— Bill Hybels

I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that's the best way to go about it.…

— Jessica Valenti

Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own…

— Mark Mobius

Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of…

— Murray Bookchin

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small…

— Alice Walker

“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It…

— Junius Williams

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously -…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a…

— David E. Wilkins

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.

— Ayn Rand

I wouldn't say all journalism is activism, but I would say most journalism is activism.

— Mike Cernovich

I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm.

— Fanny Lewald

“Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.”

— Nellie McClung

“Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.”

— Carolyn Baker

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

— Scott Thompson

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

— John Lennon

“The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.”

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

— Bill Foster

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

— Jenna Wortham

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

— Randall Robinson

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

— Elvis Presley

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

— Gloria Steinem

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

— Maya Harris

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

— Ted Nugent

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might…

— Angie Thomas