“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There's a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Nature of Truth (The Sonnet) Do you realize how serious the situation is, Are you aware of the lives ruined… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A furious researcher stumbled out of one of the lab buildings and shouted, 'I'm a scientist working on the AIDS cure. Why… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“Discussing, learning and teaching, studying and communicating, participating in actions—these are some of the forms of activism that constitute the central axis… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
Men have influenced my activism and feminism both positively and negatively. As most gender differences are social, not genetic, we still need… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
People who have come of age from the '80s on have experienced a form of activism that's very sterile and annoying. It's… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear. When I really want to hear another… — Valarie Kaur Copy Share Image
“We cannot afford to be discouraged from challenging the corporate control of our food system, our genetic commons, our shared resources, or… — Wenonah Hauter Copy Share Image
“There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause. Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
“Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“For we the people will always be arriving a ceremony of thunder waking up the earth opening our eyes to human monuments.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along the walls and ceiling, feel… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Violence is taught systematically from various angles in the television serials and cinemas. The Police are shown as partnering with nasty politicians… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
The people I've met through my path in activism, we're trying to bring real people into a leadership role because we are… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
![“[On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is…” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/gloria-steinem-277_action_on-the-internet-and-activism-the-danger_569335.jpg)
