Activist Quote by Alexander Chee

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

— Pearl Cleage

The only newspaper in our house when I was growing up was the Daily Mail, and we would never have dreamt of discussing politics…

— Caroline Lucas

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and…

— Al Franken

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

— John Eldredge

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted…

— Joan Wallach Scott

My family taught me radical politics from the beginning, but I also learned to prove myself in elite institutions.

— Chesa Boudin

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them…

— Per Petterson

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

— Paul Farmer

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

— Rosanna Arquette

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring…

— Grace Jones