Activism Quote by Paulo Freire

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and…

— Samuel Mockbee

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that…

— Rachel Maddow

“One of the first things I learned when I began teaching courses in critical thinking in 1974 was that those of us trained in…

— Robert Carroll

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's…

— Frederick Lenz

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea…

— Avi Lewis

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the…

— Bell Hooks

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

— Hillary Clinton

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself…

— Joko Beck

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

— Hermann Hesse

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

— Duncan Green

[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations…

— Jurgen Habermas

“Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.”

— W. Norris Clarke