Activism Quotes · Page 8

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”

— Shane Claiborne

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

— Anonymous

“Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.”

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

— Ela Bhatt

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

— Nicholas Negroponte

“It isn’t polyamory that is only for the young and carefree, I explain, but activism.”

— Elisabeth Sheff

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social…

— Al Sharpton

One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is…

— Alex Steffen

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the…

— Germaine Greer

The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I…

— Cary Fowler

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the…

— Samuel Adams

[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I…

— Camille Paglia

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Progress both in the United States and other nations was only ever achieved through the ability to challenge power and orthodoxies and…

— Glenn Greenwald

Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed…

— Noam Chomsky

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other…

— Frederick Douglass

“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth…

— Carolyn Baker

Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make…

— Gary Zukav

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

— Al Gore

“I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, it's part of being Americans.…

— Kevin Deyoung

We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people…

— Zeresenay Alemseged

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

— Jackson Browne

“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”

— Rivera Sun

“I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.”

— Octavia E. Butler

We're seeing young people find their own voices and find their activism.

— Angie Thomas

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

— Bob Dylan

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

— Katie Cleary

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

— Martin Sheen

I never liked the status quo. Once I went to college, I got very involved in student activism.

— Lois Frankel

It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.

— Atishi

The media is done, they don't do journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right?

— Dan Bongino

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”

— Dana Kramer-Rolls

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

— Candace Gingrich-Jones

Southern change gonna come at last! Now your crosses are burning fast, Southern Man.

— Neil Young

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

— Glenn Greenwald