Activist Quotes · Page 5

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

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

— Allan Nairn

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

— Brandon Victor Dixon

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

— David Duke

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

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

— Mal Fletcher

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or…

— Derrick Jensen

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's…

— Robert Draper

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along.…

— Victoria Moran

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And…

— Anita Roddick

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

— Karl Rove

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and…

— David Duke

I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or…

— Harvey Milk

I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past…

— Lizz Winstead

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against…

— Goran Persson

The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are…

— E.W. Jackson

I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It…

— Eugene Puryear

The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction…

— Jimmy Carter

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're…

— Hillary Clinton

I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world,…

— Immortal Technique

To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more…

— Sasha Abramsky

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify…

— Hari Nef

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

— Carmen Carrera

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Diane Guerrero

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

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

— Sharon Gannon

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

— Ric O'Barry

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Charlie Crist

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

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— 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

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

— Dolores Huerta

I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.

— Sandra Lee

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

— Duncan Green