Activist Quotes · Page 11

I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to…

— Lena Dunham

I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

— Allan Nairn

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the…

— Anne Lamott

Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be…

— Sheldon Richman

“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind…

— Abhijit Naskar

Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian…

— Amira Hass

“Let us bask in each other's rights, freedom is foul if it isn't shared.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people…

— Jodi Picoult

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use…

— Jeff Goodell

You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the…

— Pietra Rivoli

The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden.…

— Susan Sarandon

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to…

— Jello Biafra

One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…

— Bertrand Russell

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want…

— Gloria Steinem

Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on…

— Ted Cruz

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to…

— Oliver Stone

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

— Kate Clinton

I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around…

— Victoria Moran

“I AM A VOICE OF NEVER HEARD VOICES.”

— Carol Cujec

Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards…

— Dolores Huerta

I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too…

— Barack Obama

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

— Nhat Hanh

I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made…

— Bonnie Raitt

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the…

— Al Sharpton

My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary…

— Susan Faludi