Activist Quotes
244 quotes by 216 authors
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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't…
— Holly Near
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if…
— Rachel Maddow
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I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual…
— Pauley Perrette
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I see myself as a climber and an activist.
— Alain Robert
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I…
— Octavia Spencer
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As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
— Merritt Wever
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
— Larry Kramer
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The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state…
— Jim Bunning
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally…
— Ted Cruz
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When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out…
— Rick Bass
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
— Gary Bauer
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While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges…
— John Boehner
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
— Karen Bass
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
— Karen Bass
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John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement…
— Russell Banks
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
— William Baldwin
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I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information…
— Bram Cohen
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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists…
— Elliott Abrams
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I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
— Peter Carey
Who Wrote These Activist Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 244 Activist Quotes, led by these top contributors: