Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.” — Rivera Sun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it” — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
My kids have lived experiences that could have never been duplicated otherwise. That's one thing about people who get involved in activism,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Inez looked tired but hopeful. She was developing bags not only under her eyes but over them. If nothing else, the Revolution… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of… — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
The reason we do activism is because, maybe you haven't been raped or abused, but there are millions of people who can't… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's… — Corinne McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Activism and art do go hand in hand, but I am an artist and an 'artivist' within that. — Kiersey Clemons Copy Share Image
“If not you, who? If not now, when? The worst thing well-meaning people can do is simply let things remain as they… — Christine Pope Copy Share Image
I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Justice names both the wound and the weapon, even when they reside in the same person.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me. — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another. — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
In my mind, there's no logical conclusion that can be drawn, other than that I was fired for my activism. — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
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