Activist Quotes

244 quotes by 216 authors

Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold… — Staceyann Chin
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. — Bill de Blasio
When you have friends, donâ€™t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, donâ€™t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need.… — Yasmin Mogahed
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and… — Derrick Jensen
If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all… — Anita Roddick
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt… — Winona LaDuke
I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target… — Harvey Milk
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next. — Jay Sekulow
Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were accompanied… — Rodney Stark
Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it… — Darryl Cherney
You're either an activist or an inactivist. I want to stop this. — Unknown Author
It's funny how most activists are pacifists. — Craig Reucassel
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid… — Tony Kushner
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. — Todd Akin
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists,… — Terry Tempest Williams
My fans are activists they will fight with you to defend me. — Michael Jackson
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain,… — Dick Gregory
I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect… — Anderson Cooper
Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the… — Yasmin Mogahed
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice,… — Paul Hawken

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