Activists Quotes

Literature births activists.

— Angie Thomas

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

— Anonymous

We can all become activists and raise questions.

— Soleil Moon Frye

Activists are killed in Mexico.

— Gloria Trevi

There's no shortage of great young activists.

— Gloria Steinem

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

— Ela Bhatt

Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.

— Laura Moser

Astronauts: space activists.

— Frank Borman

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

— Charb

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

— Yoko Ono

I have my own support network of other organizers, activists, and attorneys.

— Linda Sarsour

“Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.

— Bill Dedman

Native American activists have been present as long as the Europeans have been working to colonize us.

— Deb Haaland

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

— Cathleen Schine

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

— Laurie David

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

“We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and…

— Hal Herzog

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

— Ben Horowitz

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable…

— Dana Priest

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

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part…

— Alanis Morissette

Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Named after four activists and their families who fought for its passage, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina…

— Alex Azar

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

— Camille

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk…

— Nancy Keenan

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles…

— Rebecca Solnit

I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or…

— Nazanin Boniadi

“So I’ve never had much respect for activists who are willing to sit out elections, waste their votes, or tear down well-meaning…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Many activists just see what's wrong: they want to stand up to injustice and educate people about it. But I think it's…

— Corinne McLaughlin

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

“The road to fascism and dictatorship is paved with apathy, hopelessness, frustration, futility, and despair in the masses of people. It is…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“No individual or single organization can speak for nonwhite people, women, the world's colonized populations, workers, or any demographic category as a…

— Tipu's Tiger

“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?"…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art…

— Suzy Kassem

“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza