Activist Quotes · Page 9

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because…

— Assata Shakur

One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.

— Allan Nairn

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad…

— John Cusack

The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into…

— Temple Grandin

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with…

— Jeremy Rifkin

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments…

— Bernie Sanders

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more…

— Chaz Bono

I am always hesitant to call myself an activist, mostly out of respect for the activists who are using their bodies and…

— Vivek Shraya

I strongly believe that marriage should be defined as between a man and a woman. I'm troubled by activist judges who are…

— George W. Bush

We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of…

— Gary L. Francione

People are telling me they're bored with all the attacks on Trump, meaning they were not effective. They weren't working. They weren't…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things…

— Yeonmi Park

I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals…

— Bruce Friedrich

I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true…

— Elizabeth Warren

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists…

— River Phoenix

[Sean] Spicer's message echoed what President Trump tweeted.The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases,…

— Chuck Todd

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

— Otto Schily

Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical.…

— Bill Ayers

The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs…

— Payam Akhavan

The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open…

— Johnny Giles

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's…

— Patch Adams

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have…

— Eve Ensler

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be…

— Studs Terkel

Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those…

— Mark Ruffalo

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they…

— Naomi Klein

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are…

— Susan Sarandon

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for…

— Gary DeMar

I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm…

— Martin Sheen

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for…

— Byron Katie

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In…

— Barry McGee

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will…

— Noam Chomsky

You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress…

— Tom McCall

My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not…

— Burning Spear

There's a great book by my friend Nate Garvis called Naked Civics that was very important in my development as someone with…

— Andrew Zimmern

I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.'…

— Winona LaDuke

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care…

— Ruby Dee

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again…

— Lawrence Lessig

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in America is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful,…

— Donald Trump

As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis