Activism Quote by Bayard Rustin

My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my…

— Bayard Rustin

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

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

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 think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

— Cybill Shepherd

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and…

— Angela Davis

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

— Pearl Cleage

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King…

— John Hope Bryant

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

— Kiran Bedi

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But…

— Vivian Gornick