Activist Quotes · Page 6

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

— Jessica Valenti

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

— Malik Yoba

When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.

— Marco Rubio

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

— Serj Tankian

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

— Al Sharpton

I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

— Robert Paul Weston

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

— Ken Livingstone

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

— Joan Blades

I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I wasn't a joiner. You know, I love the…

— Ruby Dee

If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for…

— Frankie Boyle

“I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the “activist clubs,” and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken…

— Blake Nelson

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists…

— John Darnielle

For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives,…

— Charles Duhigg

I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back…

— Kanye West

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say,…

— Ray McGovern

“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first…

— Abhijit Naskar

I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a…

— Erin Heatherton

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously -…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…

— Bertrand Russell

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind…

— Evgeny Morozov

Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the…

— Sylvia Thompson

My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and…

— Camille

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth…

— Bocafloja

The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

— Erick Erickson

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

— Andrea Dworkin

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

— Kate Clinton

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

— Marianne Williamson

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

— John Leo

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

— Shane Barbi

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

— Sonita Alizadeh

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

— Laura Schlessinger

“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”

— Greta Thunberg

Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

— Bayard Rustin

Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very…

— Shirin Ebadi

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

— Joely Richardson

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

— Irene Khan

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

— Ross Perot

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

— Morton Blackwell