Activist Quotes · Page 7

“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it”

— Thom Hartmann

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

— Christine Quinn

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

— Peter Carey

The left defends their, whatever you want to call, partisans, activists or what have you.

— Rush Limbaugh

“The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river”

— Ross Perot

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your…

— Bill Gates

I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.

— Alberto Fernandez

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

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

— Karl Rove

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 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

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

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

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896,…

— Mark Levin

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay…

— Richard Rodriguez

One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That…

— Lloyd Billingsley

I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is…

— Arundhati Roy

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“ Silence Never Silence never healed the lonely. Silence never comforted the broken hearted. Silence never saved a life. Silence never won…

— Shannon L. Alder

The real debate is we've had an activist court, and the American people don't want an activist court. And the real fear…

— Tom Coburn

If a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

— John Cho

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.

— Vijay Prashad

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

— Jehane Noujaim

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

— Marcus Samuelsson

“I am republic I am maoist I am activist and I am this and I am that but why? Why can't; I…

— Santosh Kalwar

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

— Michael J. Fox

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

— Russell Means

“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

— Studs Terkel

I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

— Katy Perry

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

— Alexander Chee

I'm asking people to vote for me because I'm an activist leader and a problem solver.

— Ayanna Pressley

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

— Daryl Hannah

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

— Patch Adams