Activism Quotes · Page 6

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Steve Earle

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

— Kid Rock

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

— Bill Gates

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

— Julian Bond

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

— Elvis Costello

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Christopher Lasch

Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce…

— Eyvind Kang

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in…

— Cornel West

Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking…

— Dorothy Stang

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is…

— Ella Winter

I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and…

— Deepak Chopra

“Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business,…

— Diane di Prima

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young…

— Angelina Jolie

But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply…

— Paul Wellstone

The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its…

— Glenn Greenwald

“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because…

— Noam Chomsky

“We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage.…

— Kelly J. Cogswell

We are here to make a better world. No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of…

— Abbie Hoffman

“It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical…

— David Gessner

“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants…

— Robert Graves

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.

— Angie Thomas

“I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Martin Sheen

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

— Lois Frankel

It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.

— Atishi

The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

— Katie Cleary

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

From spiritual connection springs kindness, connection, social activism, and love.

— Dani Shapiro

Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

— Tupac Shakur

What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

— Scott Morrison

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

— Rodney Crowell

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

— Wynton Marsalis

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

— Joe Walsh

“Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society.”

— Rebecca Solnit