Activism Quotes · Page 17

Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate…

— Unita Blackwell

I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

— Bill Gates

So listen everybody to what I got to say, there's hope for tomorrow, if we wake up today.

— Ted Nugent

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

— Albert Einstein

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways.…

— Noam Chomsky

It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it…

— Charles Eisenstein

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

— Randall Robinson

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

— Emiliano Salinas

“So I think that a protest,' she went on, 'like a work of dance or a work of music, is something done,…

— Eugene Lim

The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out…

— Yang Lan

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person…

— Scott Thompson

I might be an endangered species.

— Waylon Jennings

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

— Alice Walker

If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.

— Amy Lockwood

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated…

— George Elliott Clarke

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

— Anonymous

“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a…

— Anthony Standen

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

— Elie Wiesel

“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

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing…

— Abbie Hoffman

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation…

— Al Gore

Under the right conditions, gay people can become politicians and be in control of their lives in a much broader way through…

— Daayiee Abdullah

It is true that there have been excesses of judicial activism.

— Prashant Bhushan