As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
“From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual.… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world.… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal… — Nathan Runkle Copy Share Image
“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
