Activism Quote by Melanie Joy

“Accustomed as we are by heredity prejudices and our unsound education and training to represent ourselves the beneficial hand of Government, legislation and magistracy…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our democratic society…

— Daniel Myerson

“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of…

— Vasily Grossman

“(...) Taking the journalist's vow of impartiality and objectivity was not unlike joining an order of monks and spending the rest of your life…

— Paul Auster

“To Want and To Dare! Never hesitate to act when the feeling of injustice revolts us. To give one's measure with all good faith,…

— Doria Shafik

“Revolution is necessarily inspired in justice and carries with it the aspiration for justice that every honest man has in his heart.”

— Mariano Azuela

“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status quo is…

— Peter Gelderloos

“There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance…

— Various

“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to…

— Barry Unsworth

“Our devotion should center on the cause of the oppressed, the tyrannized, the humiliated and hurt masses that have no place at the table,…

— Henry Johnson Jr

“At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who…

— Neil Ormerod