Activism Quotes
236 quotes by 188 authors
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If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s…
— Bill Vaughan
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I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting…
— Ronald Reagan
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Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
— Daryl Hannah
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
— Anne Frank
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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what…
— Al Gore
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The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is:…
— Al Gore
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
— Stockwell Day
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I…
— Paul Farmer
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have…
— Salma Hayek
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our…
— Jim Hightower
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human…
— Abbie Hoffman
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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
— Ernest Istook
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That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far…
— June Jordan
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
— Margot Kidder
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any…
— Talib Kweli
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
— Christopher Lasch
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I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know -…
— Norman Lear
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