Activist Quotes · Page 6

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

— Stockwell Day

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

— Ari Shaffir

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

— Julia Sweeney

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

— Bill Ayers

“Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.”

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it's not all on my shoulders.

— Laurie David

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice…

— Tim LaHaye

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

— Amy Goodman

“The girl was always so exhausted after her full days of taking classes, leading peaceful protests, and collecting signatures for various petitions…

— Suzanne Selfors

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment…

— Douglas Brinkley

I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've…

— Anna Faris

This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against…

— Max Keiser

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women…

— Anna Holmes

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists…

— John Avlon

“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

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

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in…

— J. M. Coetzee

If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece…

— Andrew Breitbart

I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great…

— Kimberly Peirce

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either…

— Charlotte Bunch

We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent,…

— Ray McGovern

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

— Sinbad

Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

— Michael Jackson

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

— John Cusack

I get roles where I'm the activist type or I'm always morally upright.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

— Oscar Isaac

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

— Jill Stein

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

— Katie Cleary

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

— Isaac Hayes

“The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.”

— Shannon L. Alder

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

— Yoko Ono

I am a basic social activist with small-business experience, and you go where you need to go.

— Fred Eychaner

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story

— Candace Gingrich-Jones

As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.

— Janet Mock

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

— Billy Bragg

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

— Jodi Picoult