Activism Quotes · Page 4

“Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.”

— Shannon L. Alder

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

— Rod Stewart

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take…

— Sojourner Truth

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

— Jackson Browne

When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

— Garth Brooks

A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the…

— Andrew Harvey

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process,…

— Suzy Kassem

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small…

— Alice Walker

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a…

— Kamand Kojouri

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists…

— John Darnielle

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

The ultimate crime is not to care.

— Todd Rundgren

“So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to…

— T.J. Klune

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

— Rory Stewart

The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But…

— Mark Shields

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously…

— Bell Hooks

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

— Mike McCurry

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

“We sing lyrical excess, exacerbated expressionism, imponed objectivity, inventiveness, meta-baroque, extravaganza, super metaphor, sublimity, strident, exposure, super-pone, noise, super-objectivity, zillionism, fragmentation and…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

Activism is wasteful.

— Ruth Asawa

“What if an ordinary person cannot make a difference without talking about politics, without letting political concerns have their due, without feeling…

— Nina Eliasoph

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense…

— Al Gore

“You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called…

— Rebecca Solnit