Activist Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activist Anger Angry Time
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger. — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
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Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it. — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn't call myself an activist, you know? I'm an entertainer… — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
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...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
![“Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.” quote by Duncan Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d17/duncan-green-20105_activist_some-kinds-of-activists-are-more-willing_57391.jpg)
