Active Quote by Gerald Stern

We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal…

— Gary L. Francione

“Away with the hypocritical horror on the part of capitalist, labor leader, and politician.”

— Alexander Berkman

To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain…

— Paul Goodman

Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the…

— Whiting Williams

“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff of his…

— Upton Sinclair

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a…

— Bergen Evans

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

— Jasmine Guy

After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries…

— Noam Chomsky

Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us…

— Jon Meacham

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who…

— Michelle Alexander

Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people…

— Duncan Green