Activist Quotes

244 quotes by 216 authors

Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that… — Unknown Author
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to… — Riane Eisler
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. — Lierre Keith
Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the… — Doug Peacock
The only way we will ever reduce the debt and balance the budget is if America beats Washington and tea party activists take over this… — Matt Kibbe
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a… — Ian Mckellen
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway,… — Michelle Shocked
The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to â€œprotect the environment.â€ — David Bergland
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later… — John Trudell
No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by… — Camille Paglia
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to… — Bill Shuster
I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be… — Michael Pollan
I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me. — Charlie Crist
Statistics in the hands of activists have power. — Ela Bhatt
While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory… — Amy Goodman
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. — David Duke
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label, — Eric Holder

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