Activism Quotes · Page 5

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

— Shelby Steele

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

— Elie Wiesel

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

— Julia Bacha

“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.”

— Anonymous

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

— Margot Kidder

“Pain makes people warriors, you just have to hurt enough!”

— Mary-Ellen Peters

My activism is very important to me.

— Mallika Sherawat

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

— Ted Nugent

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

— Maya Harris

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

— Randall Robinson

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

— Jenna Wortham

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

— Gloria Steinem

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

— Elvis Presley

“Activism. Belief in the gospel needs to be expressed outwardly.”

— Mark Driscoll

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

— Shannon L. Alder

“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their…

— James DeFilippis

“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you…

— Germany Kent

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel…

— Philip Yancey

When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

— Camille Paglia

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major…

— Stewart Brand

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen…

— Julia Bacha

At lowest level people are corrupt without any way out; at middle level people are corrupt because of temptation and pressure from…

— K S Venkataraman

Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all.…

— Bernardine Dohrn

“Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief…

— Rebecca Solnit

Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people…

— Adam Braver

If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order…

— Ann Coulter

“It is important for upcoming activists to study American history, as well as political and philosophical thought. It is unlikely that what…

— John Lewis

There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as…

— Rosa Parks

“Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself is crucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championing…

— Carolyn Baker

In terms of activism, the Trump-era transformation of news into entertainment has had a deep effect on the way that collegiate politics…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

— Alice Walker

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

— Annie Lennox

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

— Toni Cade Bambara

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might…

— Angie Thomas

I never know why these people talk to me. I would not talk to me.

— Michael Moore

“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”

— Rivera Sun

“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it”

— Thom Hartmann