We need trans activists who are good, smart, informed and…

I've met many lesbian, gay and trans activists who've told me what they face, sometimes even within the school gates: hate crime, fear of…

— Angela Rayner

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly…

— Dean Spade

As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy individuals can…

— Dean Spade

I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks,…

— Dean Spade

My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions -…

— Susan Faludi

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

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