The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
“I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God… — Elvia Alvarado Copy Share Image
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Advocating for justice can feel overwhelming. The problems are massive, systemic, and deeply entrenched. But every small act—every starfish saved—matters.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Don’t think it is enough to attend meetings and sit there like a lump…. It is better to address envelopes than to… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much… — SZA Copy Share Image
“So I think that a protest,' she went on, 'like a work of dance or a work of music, is something done,… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become… — Elsa Tamez Copy Share Image
“I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions.… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
“Sulkowicz’s genius was to make her burden tangible, and in so doing make it something others could share. Solidarity has been a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door:… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
The people of India have been left with the devil and the deep blue sea! If X party is corrupt, the alternative… — K S Venkataraman Copy Share Image
I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately,… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's… — Mj Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much;… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
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