Come Quote by Hugh Masekela

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way…

— Hugh Masekela

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there…

— Laura Jane Grace

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

— Maria Dahvana Headley

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

— Cory Booker

I come from a very active family politically, especially around union organizing.

— Simone Missick

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

— Big Freedia

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner…

— Jared Polis

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards.…

— Gerald Stern

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

— Todd Akin

I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There…

— Tarana Burke

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley