Activists are killed in Mexico.

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer…

— Jan Brewer

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

— Marian Wright Edelman

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?" We Americans…

— Saul D. Alinsky

MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members - activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage…

— Grant Shapps

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

— Jasmine Guy

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries…

— Noam Chomsky

Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us…

— Jon Meacham

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who…

— Michelle Alexander

Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people…

— Duncan Green

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who…

— Joshua Wong

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do…

— Marshall Brickman

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that…

— Grover Norquist