“We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile… — Stephen Emmott Copy Share Image
Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Our world needs more love, more acceptance, more generosity, more compassion. Justice is a struggle. Don't be disheartened. Don't give up.” — Mark Isaacs Copy Share Image
we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the… — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The greatest work you will ever do is charity; the most divine work you will ever do will be changing people’s perception… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media,… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
“To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be… — Charles Fuller Copy Share Image
[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as… — Seyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
“Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species’ best… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
We all have gifts, and I encourage everyone to take the time to tap in and discover what their many gifts are.… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their… — James DeFilippis Copy Share Image
Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it… — Andy Hobsbawm Copy Share Image