Activist Quotes · Page 7

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

When I used to criticise Indira Gandhi and Emergency I was not part of any party. I was just a social activist.

— Shatrughan Sinha

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

“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

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader...

— Aberjhani

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

— Abhijit Naskar

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as…

— Angela Davis

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came…

— Jonathan Chait

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from…

— Robin McLeavy

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down,…

— Jello Biafra

Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which…

— Andrew Harvey

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle…

— Lierre Keith

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

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

Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist…

— Darryl Cherney

While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam…

— Hassan Blasim

Every movement's fight for justice in policy and representation in every corner of our country has an impact on every other. And…

— Ruben Gallego

I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want…

— Barack Obama

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

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

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

— Isaac Hayes

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

— Katie Cleary

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

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Robyn

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

— Jill Stein

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

— Konkona Sen Sharma

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

— John Cusack

People have to stop saying that just because someone is an anti-gay activist they might be gay. They're DEFINITELY GAY!!

— Bill Maher

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

— Martin Burns

“Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.

— Merritt Wever

“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I just get involved in things when people come to me: I'm not a musician-slash-activist, that's not the word.

— Robert Del Naja

“If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy