Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is… — Jasmine Guy Copy Share Image
Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House,… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me:… — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category. — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby… — Keshia Knight Pulliam Copy Share Image
The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by strong, courageous women. My mother is the definition of a self-sufficient, independent woman whom I have always looked up… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.” — Greta Thunberg Copy Share Image
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government. — John Leo Copy Share Image
The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists. — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die. — Shane Barbi Copy Share Image
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage. — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents. — Helen LaKelly Hunt Copy Share Image
I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. — Karl Rove Copy Share Image