Activist Quotes
244 quotes by 216 authors
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We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as…
— Derrick Jensen
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My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
— Joely Richardson
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I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
— James Cromwell
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Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.
— Michael Jackson
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When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is…
— Mel White
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I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I…
— Byron Katie
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
— Ali MacGraw
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Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo…
— Jon Stewart
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I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of…
— Tim Cook
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Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer.…
— Paul A. Offit
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I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
— Patch Adams
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I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists)…
— Camille Paglia
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If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
— Amy Goodman
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This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are…
— Max Keiser
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My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution…
— Camille
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Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All…
— Clay Shirky
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Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the…
— Mark Steyn
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American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but…
— Frederick Douglass
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Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
— Jessica Valenti
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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over…
— Jeremy Rifkin
Who Wrote These Activist Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 244 Activist Quotes, led by these top contributors: