Activist Quotes · Page 6

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

— Daryl Hannah

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

— Julia Sweeney

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

— Stockwell Day

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

— Ari Shaffir

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if…

— Rick Bass

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would…

— Dick Durbin

Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five…

— John Trudell

Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last…

— Alan Chambers

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them…

— Barney Frank

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and…

— Donald Trump

In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included…

— Amy Goodman

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want…

— Gloria Steinem

There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it…

— Malala Yousafzai

I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect,…

— Loung Ung

Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,…

— Michael Lind

Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse…

— Laurence Steinberg

I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general,…

— Margaret D. Klein

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

— David Brock

I've been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.

— Adwoa Aboah

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

— Wole Soyinka

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

— Morton Blackwell

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

— Sinbad

Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

— Michael Jackson

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it's not all on my shoulders.

— Laurie David

“Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.”

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

— Bill Ayers

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Thom Hartmann

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

— Christine Quinn

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

— Peter Carey

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your…

— Bill Gates