Activist Quotes · Page 8

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

— Ron Fournier

“Let us bask in each other's rights, freedom is foul if it isn't shared.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“One sacrifice inspires a million, one heart sets a paradigm - one spark is all it takes, to restart space and time.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

— Stockwell Day

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

— Ari Shaffir

I've been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.

— Adwoa Aboah

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

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

— Bill Ayers

Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of men saying,…

— Conan O'Brien

I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education's power to transform…

— Shakira

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a…

— James Vance

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect…

— Frederick Douglass

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne…

— Elizabeth Taylor

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to…

— Tom Morello

I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that…

— Tim Cook

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that…

— Adam McKay

To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to…

— Van Jones

Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a…

— Kenneth D. Wald

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right…

— Rachel Maddow

The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who…

— Nigel Gibson

Shareholders are sort of like cats; they get herded around, and they follow the leader. With the exception of a few activist…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

“Everybody is a terrorist, till you see the reformist (The Sonnet) Everybody is a president, till you see the first servant. Everybody…

— Abhijit Naskar

You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

— David Brock

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Morton Blackwell

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

— Julia Sweeney

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

— Sinbad

Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.

— Michael Jackson

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it's not all on my shoulders.

— Laurie David

“Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.”

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

— Bill Ayers

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or…

— Ron Wyden

Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has…

— Jennifer Lopez

The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists…

— Matt Kibbe

“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the…

— Jeremiah Walton

Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to…

— Dennis Prager

I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer…

— Thelma Jones