Hope Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal…

— Tom Robbins

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to…

— Thomas Sowell

“To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense…

— Deborah B. Gould

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you…

— Bill Ayers

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living…

— Bell Hooks

Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is…

— Leymah Gbowee

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is…

— Larry Kramer

“How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that…

— Noam Chomsky

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with…

— Michael Feinstein

“Activism is acting on your values—practical activism means being smart about it.”

— Julia Turshen