Activists Quote by Bill Dedman

“The New Left in the 1960s was obsessed with consciousness raising. Saul Alinsky, a mentor to Obama and Hillary, devoted a large part of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers…

— David Limbaugh

I was not an activist.

— Joe Biden

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics - often, they…

— Martha Nussbaum

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the…

— Andrew Breitbart

I hadn't planned on being an activist.

— Eric Schlosser

In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn…

— H. W. Brands

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

— Larry Kramer

I was taught the value of everyday activism and showing up by my grandma, who wasn't a public official, but was a breast cancer…

— Meena Harris

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

— Peter Coyote

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but…

— Toni Morrison