Academic Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

— James Thurber

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

— Indira Gandhi

I have never been an activist for anything.

— Jim Parsons

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique…

— Eric Hoffer

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

— Bayard Rustin

If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private…

— Noam Chomsky

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries who --…

— Larry Laudan

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and…

— Rachel Weisz

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever…

— Nick Offerman

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics - often, they…

— Martha Nussbaum

People who become important activists, they also struggle with the process of discovery.

— Vijay Prashad