Activists Quotes · Page 2

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

— Ralph Nader

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

— Barton Gellman

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

— Mal Fletcher

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

— DeRay Mckesson

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

— Charlie Crist

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.

— Nancy Ruth

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

— Rosanna Arquette

A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.

— Kenny Stills

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

— Kate Clinton

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than…

— Evgeny Morozov

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social…

— Nina Turner

Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's…

— Jonathan Tisch

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support…

— Michelle Alexander

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think…

— Paul Farmer

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

— Billy Bragg

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

— Robyn

If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of…

— Michael Specter

I know some women's rights activists have seen so much abuse that they can't stand men, but I have a sense of…

— Deeyah Khan

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in…

— Jonathan Schell

I've been a voting-rights attorney and activist, so I understand the role of activists: They push decision-makers to get done what they'd…

— Colin Allred

I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi…

— Andrew Aydin

I want to commend the men and women at CPAC. As activists fighting for liberty, fighting for the Constitution, y'all are incredibly…

— Ted Cruz

Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions…

— Noam Chomsky

As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply…

— Noam Chomsky

Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,…

— Michael Lind

“Think about it: If you have saved just enough to have your own house, your own car, a modicum of income to…

— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of…

— Michael Carter

“If you are being approached, called, selected or invited to join these group of people who are trying to destroying the country.…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Eugenians are proud of the regional bounty and were passionate about incorporating local, seasonal, and organic ingredients well before it was back…

— Michelle Zauner

“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the…

— Ross Cheit

“We talk about society because we want to align ourselves with a chosen group, to signal that alignment to others, and to…

— Michael Huemer

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

— Shane Barbi

“The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

— Ben Horowitz

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

— Pearl Cleage

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

— Stella Young

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

— Larry Kramer

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

— Vijay Prashad