The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out… — Yang Lan Copy Share Image
When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I think more and more foundations are putting resources into food activism. But I think that given the state of the economy,… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The corruption at higher levels flourishes and sustains corruption all around. Some people try to justify corruption on the ground of its… — K S Venkataraman Copy Share Image
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
“Where does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I am very proud of our Supreme Court - it is one of the best worldwide. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, we have… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
“A protest should be undeniable. It should not ask the oppressed to become scholars of your rhetoric. It should not demand a… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of jobs and titles while working in politics. But at the end of the day, one thing has… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand… — John Thackway Copy Share Image
But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
![“The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.” quote by Yang Lan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3db/yang-lan-58000_active_the-traditional-media-in-china-is-still_1893983.jpg)
![“These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.” quote by Wadah Khanfar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c4/wadah-khanfar-19418_activism_these-arab-youth-who-have-been-inspired_837868.jpg)
