Activist Quote by Bonnie Raitt

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

— Pearl Cleage

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there…

— Laura Jane Grace

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 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

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

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

— Lady Gaga

I've always been an activist, so my participation in community outreach and helping is just a natural extension of that.

— Malik Yoba

My mother said, 'Did you ever believe you would be an activist?' I said, 'No, not really.' But I just felt in my heart…

— Bubba Wallace

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

— John Cusack

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

— Roger Ross Williams

My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.

— Yolanda King

I'm an activist.

— Michael Horse