Activism Quotes

236 quotes by 191 authors

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and… — Nicholas Negroponte
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. — Majora Carter
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold… — Edward Burtynsky
Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So… — Bjorn Lomborg
We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do… — Bjorn Lomborg
We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on… — William J. Clinton
We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500… — Jacqueline Novogratz
Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets. — Vusi Mahlasela
We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or to… — Zeresenay Alemseged
This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all… — Larry Brilliant
Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if… — Peter Diamandis
We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it… — Andy Hobsbawm
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and… — Jacqueline Novogratz
You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity. — Cary Fowler
A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system… — James A. Forbes
This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony. — Kavita Ramdas
We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be… — Annie Lennox
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough… — Wadah Khanfar
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. — Maajid Nawaz

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