Activist Quotes · Page 4

I consider myself an activist who governs.

— Andrew Gillum

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

— Dalton McGuinty

“I detect the activist returning with a vengence.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

We can all become activists and raise questions.

— Soleil Moon Frye

“Remember, a smile is more contagious than the coronavirus.”

— Bill Madden

I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.

— Kevin Sessums

The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

— Erick Erickson

You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this.

— Ric O'Barry

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

— Charlie Crist

Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

— Rush Limbaugh

“Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

— Roger Ross Williams

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

— Lady Gaga

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the…

— James Cromwell

It's hard to achieve that, especially in a free society, but it's been done, and that's the kind of thing that activists…

— Noam Chomsky

I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people…

— Thao Nguyen

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out…

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of…

— Michael Franti

When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming…

— Mel White

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care…

— Michaela Angela Davis

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer,…

— Kristin Kreuk

They seemed like a team. And I think it is fair to say that Roosevelt was the consummate politician and that Eleanor…

— William A. Rusher

Berta Caceres was a Lenca Indian activist well-known in her country, shot in her home. She was not only known in Honduras,…

— Renee Montagne

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the…

— Betty White

As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no…

— Dean Spade

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good…

— Talib Kweli

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

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

— Dolores Huerta

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

— Peter Carey

“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it”

— Thom Hartmann

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

— Christine Quinn

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

— Ezra Furman

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

— Rush Limbaugh

“The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river”

— Ross Perot

I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.

— Alberto Fernandez

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your…

— Bill Gates

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar