Activists Quotes · Page 2

Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

— Laura Moser

I have my own support network of other organizers, activists, and attorneys.

— Linda Sarsour

“Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.

— Vijay Prashad

“No one has ever recruited activists to a cause by announcing that things are getting better,”

— Steven Pinker

My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me.

— Michael Jackson

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

— Dick Mountjoy

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

— Sadiq Khan

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

— Jasmine Guy

It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community…

— Mona Eltahawy

Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast, and print outlets…

— Patrisse Cullors

Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental…

— Mary Robinson

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written…

— Paul Di Filippo

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,…

— Charles B. Rangel

Antiabortion activists and Republican lawmakers have been gearing up for a nationwide ban since before Roe was overturned.

— Jonathan Capehart

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've…

— Gerald Stern

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

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles…

— Rebecca Solnit

I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or…

— Nazanin Boniadi

My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and…

— Camille

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk…

— Nancy Keenan

If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of…

— Michael Specter

I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of…

— Deeyah Khan

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in…

— Jonathan Schell

“So I’ve never had much respect for activists who are willing to sit out elections, waste their votes, or tear down well-meaning…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“We talk about society because we want to align ourselves with a chosen group, to signal that alignment to others, and to…

— Michael Huemer

“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the…

— Ross Cheit

“If you are being approached, called, selected or invited to join these group of people who are trying to destroying the country.…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Eugenians are proud of the regional bounty and were passionate about incorporating local, seasonal, and organic ingredients well before it was back…

— Michelle Zauner

“Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of…

— Michael Carter

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

— Pearl Cleage

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

— Ben Horowitz

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

— Stella Young

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

— Larry Kramer

A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.

— Kenny Stills

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

— Kate Clinton

“The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.”

— Shannon L. Alder