Poetry, song, stories, art, our reverence for nature, are key to our survival as a species, and to the survival of all… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a true activist, in the sense that I don't like to do a lot of talking. I'll ask… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Take the people facing charges in connection with the protests that occurred on the eve of Vladimir Putin's third-term inauguration, May 6,… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems.… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist,… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I'm not an activist. I'm looking to effect policy, and that means I'm looking to effect policy that the majority of Canadians… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image