Activist Quotes · Page 7

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

— Studs Terkel

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

— Russell Means

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“One sacrifice inspires a million, one heart sets a paradigm - one spark is all it takes, to restart space and time.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

— Patch Adams

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

— Ron Fournier

“Let us bask in each other's rights, freedom is foul if it isn't shared.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Daryl Hannah

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and…

— Grace Dunham

There might have been a point in my career where, because people have been telling me I'm an activist, I took on…

— Hunter Schafer

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. —SHERYL SANDBERG, American…

— Danielle Harlan

I'm not a civil rights activist or an activist in general. I just think we all carry a responsibility based on who…

— Trevor Lawrence

Activist judges and local officials in some parts of the country are not letting up in their efforts to redefine marriage for…

— George W. Bush

I'll be on the street and go up to people - 'Have you read a comic book before? Well, here's one.' You've…

— Rob Liefeld

You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been…

— Ray McGovern

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I'm always frustrated that most Americans, even activists, know so little about the movements and people that have made America a better…

— Peter Dreier

I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by…

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Yes, there's something dangerous about turning people into token social activists. I was thinking about this recently with our pop-culture feminism, when…

— Amandla Stenberg

The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy…

— Peter Gabriel

If you look at the well-informed Democratic Sanders activists - I don't know if you were in Philadelphia, but there was no…

— Jill Stein

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,…

— Patti Smith

I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the…

— Jeff VanderMeer

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,…

— Kevin Mattson

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

— Larry Kramer

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

— Marianne Williamson

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

— John Leo

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

— Andrea Dworkin

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

— Kate Clinton

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

— Laura Schlessinger

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

— Shane Barbi

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

— Sonita Alizadeh

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very…

— Shirin Ebadi

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

— Joely Richardson

“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”

— Greta Thunberg

Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

— Bayard Rustin

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

— Ross Perot

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

— Irene Khan

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

— Rush Limbaugh

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

— Charlie Crist