Activist Quotes · Page 8

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

— Arundhati Roy

I'm not activist, but I'm not troubled by being in the LGBT corner.

— Max Riemelt

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

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

— Allan Nairn

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

— Karen Bass

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

— Michael Pollan

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

— Nhat Hanh

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.

— Eric Holder

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I…

— Ken Buck

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base…

— George Stephanopoulos

Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy,…

— Noam Chomsky

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get…

— Malaak Shabazz

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and…

— Bill Shuster

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

— Florence King

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not…

— Angela Davis

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own…

— Gloria Steinem

It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony…

— David Limbaugh

I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and…

— Sharif Abdel Kouddous

The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is…

— Cory Booker

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

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

— Betty White

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

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 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'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

— Sharon Gannon

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

— Nicola Sturgeon

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

— Orlando Bloom

“Proverb goes, change takes time; I say, time takes change, for without change there is no time.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I consider myself an activist for women like me, who want to be confident and don't want to be judged.

— Carmen Carrera

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

— Mal Fletcher

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

— Diane Guerrero

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

— William Baldwin

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

— Barton Gellman

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

— David Duke

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

— Anne Lamott

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the…

— Vivian Gornick

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting…

— Jeff Goodell

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will…

— Shannon L. Alder

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power…

— Will Self

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before…

— Bill Ayers