Activist Quote by Alexander Chee

Organizations like to know about your family background and what your parents did for a living, about your upbringing. For me, even if people…

— T. J. Watt

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do…

— Marshall Brickman

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

— Rosanna Arquette

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your…

— David Carson

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

— Uma Thurman

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

— Anonymous

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in…

— Mike Quigley

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

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been…

— Doris Salcedo

I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

— Robert Redford

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people…

— Sonia Gandhi