Advocacy Quote by Alex Steffen

Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with…

— Michael Feinstein

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time…

— Neil Young

I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and…

— Nelly Furtado

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror, of the lives we are living. Social protest…

— Audre Lorde

The protests may turn into something entirely new. Our people are very creative and well-organized. Some of them are singing in shopping malls. Students…

— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase,…

— Edward Snowden

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

— Greta Thunburg

21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the…

— Ory Okolloh

We have to create more awareness around the importance of civic participation.

— Ashley Biden

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching…

— Noam Chomsky